The Compass and Square 

with 

Symbolism 



For Women Only 



Revt$ed Edition 



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COPYRIGHT 1922, BY 
THE WOMAN'S ORDER OP ESOTERIC MASONRY 

REVISED EDITION 



Apr, 24 ih22 
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THE WILSON PRESS 
LOS ANGELES 



O/K^ I 



This Booklet Is Dedicated 

to 

The Woman's Order of Esoteric Masonry 

of 

Los Angeles, California 

The ONLY INCORPORATED SCHOOL EVER ESTAB- 
LISHED EXCLUSIVELY DEVOTED to WOMAN'S AT- 
TAINMENT of the MYSTIC and higher 

KNOWLEDGE. 

That she may recover her lost inheritance, 
is the earnest and sincere soul desire of the 
writer. 

GO LITTLE BOOK AND DO GOOD. 

Devotedly Yours in Service, 

33°. 
Los Angeles, California, 
January, 1922. 



PREFACE 

THE Compass and Square with Symbol- 
ism, is a small compilation of frag- 
mentary lore designed as a iSnger-post 
to point the way for the student who seeks 
to hnow that Equilibrium, Unity, and Har- 
mony in existence are essential in Evolu- 
tion to establish Equality, Justice, Liberty 
and Peace. 

Pew of the World's busy multitudes have 
the leisure or care to give their attention to 
large books of many words written upon 
abstruse subjects. Thus, we send out this 
Booklet, which is so limited in size that only 
the outer edge of the vast subject for con- 
sideration can be touched. 

In the beginning, it must be understood as 
a compilation, with additions. No one can 
be educated or understand the great prob- 
lems of LIFE;, LAW and truth^ who is igno- 
rant of symbolism. The symbols of secret 
fraternities conceal the stolen Mystical 
Knowledge of Life and Its purpose, which 
is the just inheritance of woman equal with 
man. 

Modern Free Masonry has almost entirely 
lost the meanings of the traditional symbols 
which was a trust to be transmitted through 

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the ages, and it cannot now, by itself, pro- 
vide US with that Synthetic Law which is 
true enlightenment. The ancient Hebrew 
manuscripts of the Bible contained all oc- 
cult traditions, but its true sense has never 
yet been revealed. Like elsewhere it has been 
criminally concealed ; and this usurped and 
Lost Knowledge of Dual Law is the only 
Key that will open the Tomb of Hiram, i. e., 
the Human Body, that marvelous Temple, 
with its indwelling Christ Consciousness to 
be discovered and developed, in the march 
toward Light; a journey from Protoplasm 
back to the Source of our Being. 

God is LOVE^ and the great mission of our 
much afflicted Planet is to develop the unsel- 
fish and universal power of Love. This 
small word of superior charm, when re- 
versed, spells evol, meaning hate, and hu- 
manity alone has planted and fostered this 
wicked power of hate even in their religions, 
sustaining it to the point of endangering our 
Planet of Self Conscious Life — the harvest 
home of Mind and Soul, the only treasures 
worth possessing. 

A world of dominant Man Rule, in ex- 
treme selfishness and egoism, cannot bring 
forth good fruit. Thus, the multitudes per- 
ish in ignominious warfare, human life is 
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soaks the soil, under the Banner of so-called 
Christian Liberty. 

The Law of Equilibrium cannot longer be 
ignored, and the closed doors to Real Knowl- 
edge of Life and Law must be unlocked. 
Books are innumerable, sciences are many, 
life is short, obstacles are great; seek ye, 
therefore, the essence of Knowledge, which 

is TEUTH. 



EXPLANATION 

THIS Compilation is designed for wo- 
men only, for the simple reason that 
man needs no small finger-board to 
tell him that there is a vast and valuable 
Knowledge and the way to find it. He has 
had access to same for centuries, through 
the man-made secret fraternities and cer- 
tain Church Hierarchies, where this lore has 
been usurped and concealed under cunning 
phrases and recondite symbolism, and to 
which all women have been denied access, 
considered as undeserving and incapable. 
Thus, man would only scorn and deride this 
very humble and plain attempt to suggest 
the way of Truth to woman, whose place has 
(since developed mankind existed) ever 
been assigned to servitude and dense igno- 
rance by masculine authority, as best for the 
Evolution of the Race. 

Present conditions of this man ruled 
world today demand that woman raise her- 
self out of this sand and mire, and seek to 
understand if all Real Knowledge should 
remain concealed for the benefit of self ag- 
grandizement and selfish power of a very 
few only of one-half of mankind, while the 



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struggling multitudes en masse must suffer 
and perish. 

Woman's inheritance is Divine Reason, 
which will grant her Poise and Peace, and 
she must seek it to know the meaning of all 
Life. Woman has been misled and kept in 
dense ignorance by the error in all Creeds, 
which define the Deity by expressing every- 
thing that He is not. Agrippa says, ^'Show 
me but one worthy person who is capable of, 
and fit to receive the Sacred Mysteries, and 
I will show him the right and infallible way 
to come by it. Yet, this I must tell Thee, it 
would sink Thee to the ground to hear this 
mystery related, for it cannot ascend to the 
Heart of Mankind how near God is to them 
and how to he found/^ 

*^The common chemist works with the 
common -fire, and without any medium, 
wherefore he produces nothing, for he works 
not according to the Creative Power which 
is for preservation, but to destruction ; hence 
it is that he ends always in ashes/' 

The great and tiresome journey of Self 
Conscious human life from protoplasm back 
to the source of its being is one continuous 
effort, a struggle, with but one treasure to 
gain worthy of possession by super-human 
effort. This is a knowledge and understand- 
ing of the REAL — a Pilot that will not desert 

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US on the shores of the Great Divide, but 
will beckon us on to the way of our compre- 
hension and adjustment on other Planes of 
Life. 

This Treasure beyond value is the just 
inheritance of humanity under the sustain- 
ing Law of Equilihrium, but it has been un- 
scrupulously usurped by a dominant power 
of evil and special privilege — soulless and 
selfish for centuries, leaving the multitudes 
of humanity wandering in the wilderness, 
chained to the wheel of physical law, bound 
to the cross of ignorance, and, like flies beat- 
ing upon the window pane, their outlook for 
escape from the grind of the millstones and 
suffering is hopeless. 

Few know there is a Boor to open for the 
return journey, and the masses have neither 
the ability nor aspiration to seek for Light. 
Only Knowledge and Wisdom can properly 
guide. ^^Seek and ye shall find," but you 
will not find it in schools or colleges, from 
the pulpit, or by the press. It can only be 
found where it is cunningly and arrogantly 
concealed under the guise of complex sym- 
bolism. 

The ancient symbols of Free Masonry 
teach profound religious Truth and Philos- 
ophy. They are, in fact, the basic founda- 
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fore Free Masonry existed, and can be 
traced back to the Lemurian, or Third Race 
of Mankind. 

The very first requisite of a symbol is that 
it shall be in its nature a proper and ade- 
quate sign of something that shall be worth 
knowing and ever remembering. But the 
current explanations of these valuable and 
instructive emblems is such as to make most 
of them worse than of no real value to any 
human heing, for it is cunningly calculated 
that they will only deceive, and, by base 
falsity and hypocrisy, mislead all sincere 
seeking minds far away from the Path that 
leads to the fountain of Truth. 

On page 819, ^^ Morals and Dogma," we 
read: ^^The Blue Degrees are but the outer 
court or portico of the Temple. Part of the 
symbols are displayed there to the Initiate, 
but he is intentionally misled by false inter- 
pretations. It is not intended that he shall 
understand them ; l)ut it is intended that he 
shall imagine he understands them. Their 
true explication is reserved for the Adepts, 
the Princes of Masonry." 

Then upon the same page we are told that 
*^ Hypocrisy is a mortal disease," and thus 
we realize the consistency ( '?) of man-rule, 
even in the Lodge. 

The dominant motive in arranging this 

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Compilation is to bring before women the 
necessity of their awakening to know and 
fully understand that there is a concealed 
knowledge of the Real in all Life and Na- 
ture that is their inheritance, and concerns 
them much more than it does man who pos- 
sesses it, for women are the Master Builders 
of all Races. 

Knowledge is Power, ignorance is weak- 
ness. Knowledge liberates, ignorance en- 
slaves; herein lies the secret of its usurpa- 
tion. The masses of humanity being en- 
slaved gives liberty, selfish ease and crafty 
power to a dominant few who have most suc- 
cessfully exploited the various Races of 
Mankind during the existence of human life 
upon the Planet. 

Everywhere, and among all the various 
phases of mankind over the Globe, one and 
the same condition is found for women, 
varying only in form. That is, their dense 
ignorance en masse of all but the most triv- 
ial illusions and falsities of life, rendering 
them inane, helpless, and hopeless to cope 
with their bondage. 

For multiplied centuries of the vast long 
ago, all that was worthy of effort in educa- 
tion was so concealed under a complex style 
of phraseology and a net- work of symbology, 
that it eventually became only the Lost 

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Word, SO buried under the rubbish of big- 
otry and egoism that all influence or concep- 
tion of its majestic power and sacred value 
has disappeared. 

There is evidence that the great motive of 
the mighty Law of Nature in producing 
manifestation by form, was the expansion 
of mind and soul consciousness, that contin- 
ued growth in Evolution, which leads to 
Unity in Universal Wisdom, and is the only 
treasure worthy of great effort by fallen 
Conscious Life (i. e., ''The Widow's Son"). 
Nature ever destroys that which does not 
grow, and to know the Real, free from the 
false, aids our growth under the mighty 
Laws of Life and Being. Such is the inher- 
itance of Mankind. 

The same condition has environed and 
limited real knowledge, that has fallen to the 
lot of other human possessions. Its actual 
holders, naming themselves the favored few 
(Prince, Adepts, etc.), strive to retain it ex- 
clusively for self-interest. 

Imparting knowledge does not diminish 
its store; one can remain as rich as ever 
after enriching the minds of others ; but the 
vain human mind places a very high value 
upon self distinction y fearing its loss. 

Knowledge, however held, is essentially 
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same purpose as money possessions, gaining 
selfish ease, adoration, and the power of gov- 
erning. This radiates a more brilliant halo 
in the midst of ignorance, which ever implies 
general weakness easily exploited. Thus we 
have flourishing Church Hierarchies sup- 
ported by the credulity of the multitude 
(principally women) and various secret fra- 
ternities — all under arbitrary masculine 
domination. Subject to these continued con- 
ditions, there is in time developed a state of 
affairs which affords no inducement to im- 
part real knowledge, there not being suffi- 
cient intelligence abroad to appreciate or 
understand the great truths and philoso- 
phies of Life, although announced in their 
plainest garl3 of simplicity; ignorance, 
fanaticism and prejudice opposing all effort 
in that direction. 

Ignorance ever generates ignorance, mul- 
tiplying supreme misery, and this alone 
should imply that the compassionless mate- 
rial Law ot"l will multiply" should be con- 
trolled by reason and justice, for it is in this 
dense ignorance that the deep sleep of Adam 
continues to be the baneful inheritance of 
all the various Eaces of Mankind up to the 
present time, its somnolent influence stulti- 
fying and destructive, swaying the varied 
mentality of the masses to that extreme de- 

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gree that they fail to seek or comprehend, 
remaining content to have someone do their 
thinking for them at a stipulated salary. 
Woman, especially, owing to her credulous 
mind, is the chief support of this parasitic 
class, who regard her as a soulless commod- 
ity, a focused centre for contempt and ridi- 
cule, owing to her superficial life of vanity, 
emotion, insincerity and ignorance. As the 
Mothers of Men, she has always dwelt in a 
deep channel of inferiority; serving and 
admiring her self-styled superiors. Accord- 
ingly, her supreme desire and aspiration has 
even been, and continues to be up to the 
present time, to serve and worship some so- 
called Master, physically, morally and spir- 
itually, not realizing that the great majority 
of these self-styled Masters and Leaders of 
blind humanity of the past were men of evil, 
selfish motive, whom to serve, worship and 
admire only increases her inferiority and 
degredation. 

Enlightenment and a general, broad con- 
ception of Facts only, will endow woman 
with a new life, a new understanding, a 
proper aspiration, a knowledge of her own 
Higher Self, and a logical hope of a future 
life. Then, as the Intelligent Soul of the 
Race, she can aid in overthrowing the evil 
customs and conditions that have cursed our 

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ignorant and unhappy "World for countless 
generations, thus establishing a better en- 
vironment for the development of soul and 
mind in the propagation of human life. 

Priceless education will develop all the 
requisites for that necessary companionship 
to unite Love and Wisdom, those infallible 
guides to the haven of Equilibrium, Liberty 
and abiding Peace. It is the duty of woman 
to cultivate a mentality strong and positive, 
possessing her own body and intellect, en- 
dowed with the ability to recognize where 
her credulity has led her and the crafty mo- 
tive of her deceivers. Until this is thor- 
oughly understood, she can never be a capa- 
ble voting citizen, but only a tool for the 
Jesuitic methods and influence of Politics. 

Church Heirarchies are centers of politi- 
cal power, and all Governments of import- 
ance are controlled by secret fraternities. 
Since they murdered Morgan, Black Magi- 
cians are as numerous as in the days of 
ancient Atlantis, and they find lucrative 
fields for labor everywhere by the ignorance, 
and credulity of the masses. 

The much vaunted medical profession is 
one of their most fruitful planes of action. 
Thousands of ignorant women are being 
dragged into unnecessary surgical opera- 
tions for imaginary ills, their health and 

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usefulness destroyed, that the Surgeon may 
have practical experience, combined with an 
exorbitant fee. 

Search ye the hidden paths for priceless 
knowledge, the day of mental liberation ap- 
proaches. The World is growing ripe for 
the wisdom faculty, and the golden threads 
from the web of Secret Knowledge must he 
unravelled. 

Give to humanity that which is locked 
within the doors of antiquated organiza- 
tions, and the whole world will be the gainer 
for having a just access to fountains of 
Truth. This will then unite Peace and 
Good Will, that blessing of equity due the 
Races of Mankind. 

Nature and Her immutable Laws is the 
great teacher of humanity, for such is the 
Revelations of Divinity, and those who know 
this Revelation acknowledge no superior hut 
LAw^ and bend the knee only to the Majesty 
of Creative Potver. The only Master for 
woman to reverence is her own Higher Self 
in this important school for the Soul, called 
Life, an arena of experience and discipline 
under the Law of Evolution, that prepares it 
to return from exile with acquired knowl- 
edge to a brighter existence beyond the 
Portal of Death. 

Life, arising out of Death, is one of the 

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greatest mysteries which symbolism has rep- 
resented in a thousand ingenious ways, and 
the Ancient Wisdom of all Nations comes to 
us through symbols representing Truth. 

These symbols can be traced over the com- 
plete Globe and back to the long forgotten 
centuries. In every age of the World's his- 
tory we find the Cross, the Circle, and the 
Swastica. They are as old as Mankind, and 
reveal the most important teaching that 
there is one true original Law, invariable. 
Eternal, calling with irresistible voice to 
Duty and Justice. It is the Law of Unity, 
and Aphrodite is its principle. 

We read in the life of Pythagoras that 
teaching by symbols was most necessary, and 
when they are made clear they produce a 
Divine Inspiration in those who unite intel- 
lect with learning. The true meaning of a 
few of the symbols are still known in the 
Masonic Lodges, many others are disused, 
and some are lost beyond recovery. 

From the beginning, most of the symbols 
were kept carefully and strictly concealed 
from all but the favored few (mistaken by 
the multitude as superior), and false inter- 
pretations of them were given to mislead all 
others. 

Symbols are used to conceal and not to re- 
veal, and among those important ones whose 

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true meaning is not given is the Cable-tow 
and its length, the Square and Compass on 
the Altar, the substitute words, the Apron, 
the Forty-seventh Problem, the chequered 
floor, the rough Ashlar, the perfect Ashlar, 
the Plumb, the Person represented by the 
Three Altar Lights, the meaning of Tubal 
Cain, and the Three Implements with which 
the Master was smitten. These will prob- 
ably never be discovered by the general 
Fraternity. 

About the year 1750, the Master's Degree 
was dismembered, losing the Master's Word, 
and no Master Mason now obtains that for 
which he became a Mason, and to which he 
has a right, and no one now journeys from 
the high place of Gibeon to the Threshing 
Floor of Oman, the Jebusite, nor has he 
seen his Master clothed in Blue and Gold, 
nor are the Apprentices and Fellow's Craft 
any longer paid at their respective Columns, 
nor does the Master use in his work Chalk, 
Charcoal and an Earthen Vessel, nor does 
the Apprentice becoming a Fellow Craft 
pass from the Square to the Compass, for 
the meaning of these phrases have long been 
lost, and Masonry of today knows nothing of 
the science of Morality and Philosophy 
taught by its sacred symbols. 

Symbology is a figurative and emblemati- 

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cal language which requires a particular 
study before it can be understood. The 
statue of the Nature Goddess, Isis, held a 
hunch of Keys in her hand. Mutely these 
symbols were offered, leaving every one to 
interpret them according to their own com- 
prehension. 

Masonry reveres Pythagoras as authority 
on symbology. He had a charmed life of 
opportunity, but there are many men and 
women of today who could surpass him in 
learning and do far better work for human- 
ity were they favored with half of his supe- 
rior advantages and privileges. He left no 
writings, and his last days recorded many 
mistakes and failures. It did not become 
possible to understand his symbology and 
teachings until the Zend Books were recov- 
ered by the French Savant ^*de Perron." 

The Zend Philosophy is the teaching of 
Fire Worship known to the Persians, and to 
this knowledge the Races of Mankind will 
return in the Sixth Epoch, now approaching. 

Substitute symhology is ivorthless, but the 
true, original symbols are entitled to he re- 
vered, because they represent, whether 
Masons know it or not, the very God power 
in Creation, the Wisdom, Word, and Mani- 
festation. 

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All knowledge of Truth is both moral and 
valuable, and in time Mankind (especially 
women) will learn that to have knowledge 
is to he religious. 

The human mind speculates upon the 
great mysteries of Nature, and finds its 
ideas anticipated by the Ancients, whose 
most profound thoughts are to be searched 
for in their symbology, by which they en- 
deavored to express ideas too great for utter- 
ance in words. For the lofty thoughts of 
sacred aspirations cannot float down into the 
density of speech. No language ever spoken 
by Mankind has the requisite words to ex- 
press the reverence and profound sense of 
the great mysteries of Birth, Life and Death, 
and the New Life Beyond that Portal of 
Terror. 

In our own search for Truth we must first 
ever bear in mind the Dual Law everywhere 
in evidence, then learn that the lost knowl- 
edge of secret Fraternities is based upon the 
mystery of the separation of androgynous 
humanity into distinct male and female, the 
understanding of Generation and Regener- 
ation, and the gigantic task of the Great 
Work in the return of Mankind again to 
Unity plus the gain of knowledge by experi- 
ence during the separation. Woman and 
man must be ever recognized and under- 

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stood, by both the Law of Unity and Dual- 
ity, to learn the truths of symbolism. Re- 
member the original Delphic Oracle, ''Know 
Thyself through the Mysteries of Sex," or 
the Creative Power in manifestation, the 
wrong use of which is the cause of all the 
evils of Mankind. 

Europe's greatest Mason says, ''The rites 
offered to women in the Fraternity are cas- 
ual substitutes only, and not one of them has 
any real title to existence, the American 
Eastern Star heing especially worthless/' 
But the place of woman in the Rites of Ini- 
tiation has been long since determined after 
a manner which leaves no doubt regarding 
the equality of the sexes therein, and in the 
secret ceremonies which have Divine Knowl- 
edge as the final settlement of their research, 
the man is not without the woman, nor he 
who is Priest of the Sacramental Mysteries 
is not without the Priestess within the com- 
nunion of super-essential sanctity. 

On the physical plane, two like poles will 
always repel each other, while the opposites 
or negative and positive, are mutually 
attracted. Thus, the two processes for the 
Two Creations, the animal and the Divine, 
greatly differ. 

Symbols have various meanings, the esot- 
eric and most valuable not usually given. 

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The rough Ashlar to the Enterred Appren- 
tice is typical of his own undeveloped and 
undisciplined self, and he is supposed to 
work upon it well and with patience, biding 
his time to please his Master, i e., his own 
Higher Self, when he will be allowed to take 
his tools to the Column of Bohaz, to receive 
his wages, i. e., travelling in foreign coun- 
tries, etc. The perfected Stone is to be ad- 
justed by the working tools of the Fellow 
Craft, for here the candidate is admitted 
into the Middle Chamber, for the sake of the 
letter ^'G", or Generation, and should ever 
aspire to produce offspring superior to him- 
self. Here, his Fellow Craft, or Comrade, 
must be Woman, and his wages given at this 
Column on this Plane, by living an unselfish 
and exemplary life as an Elohim or Crea- 
tor, is expansion of mind and soul experi- 
ence, leading to Peace and Understanding 
in Self Conscious Life Eternal. 

The Cross has been a sacred sjnmbol from 
the earliest antiquity; it is found upon all 
the enduring monuments of the World, in 
all countries, and upon those marvelous fig- 
ures of Easter Island relics of Ancient Le- 
muria we find the Crux Ansata, this most 
common of all emblems carved upon the old 
temple walls of Ancient Egypt. It is found 
grasped in the hand of almost every figure 

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of a Deity or Priest, and was the form of an 
iron tether pin, to make fast to the ground 
the cords which confined young animals. 
Eealizing this as a strictly phallic emblem, 
we understand how its wrong and unsacred 
use can shackle the higher principles of 
Life, chaining us to the Earth under a strict- 
ly animal existence. 

From the correct idea of Generation came 
the ancient reverence everywhere paid to 
symbols of generative power which formed 
the philosophical Cross of Masonry ; and the 
end and perfection of the Great Work of 
Regeneration is expressed by a Triangle sur- 
mounted by a Cross. The Crux Ansata or 
Egyptian Cross, and the Christian Cross 
have the same meaning. The Cross sur- 
mounted by a Circle is the astronomical sign 
of Venus or Love, and the great function of 
human life on our dark Planet called Earth 
is to develop and perfect that unselfish Love 
that leads to higher realms of under- 
standing. 

The uniform Cross with four equal arms, 
symbolizing the sacred Tetractys, is the per- 
fect number Ten, i. e., man and woman, or 
the Ten Points on which Hiram is raised; 
and in time it might be a matter of some in- 
terest to the vast multitude of women, en- 
slaved by the benighting influence of Ortho- 

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doxy to know that the Uniform Cross sym- 
bolizes sex union, and the man on the mas- 
culine form of the Cross is the emblem of 
the Divine Creative Principle degraded into 
evil by ignorant Thieves, as Prometheus 
stole the Fire from Heaven. 

The way of redemption is symbolized by 
the Forty-seventh Problem, a very ancient 
emblem of much meaning, by which we 
learn that in every right angled triangle the 
sum of the squares of the base and perpen- 
dicular equal the square of the hypotenuse. 
In other words, Isis and Osiris united form 
the House of Horus. The numerical value 
of this problem is significant. 543 reversed 
gives 345, added together w^e have 888, the 
ancient Greek number of the Christ. 

The Sun and Moon represent the two 
grand principles of all generations. Active 
and Passive, Male and Female. Sun, Moon 
and Earth furnishes one aspect of the Forty- 
seventh Problem, symbolized in the Lodge 
by Master and Wardens. They also repre- 
sent Spirit, Soul and Body. All Masonry is 
but an allegory of the journey of the Soul, 
or Self Conscious Life, through its impris- 
onment in Matter, 

Symbols were the almost universal lan- 
guage of ancient Theology where the rela- 
tions between the human and Divine were 

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dramatized, and the indissoluble link con- 
necting fallen self conscious life in Matter 
with the great Universal Consciousness was 
well understood. 

Initiation was a school in which truths of 
primitive revelation were taught with all 
other occult sciences, including animal mag- 
netism, etc., and terms of probation extend- 
ing into years were required; but modern 
Masonry has a system of graft by which 
large classes graduate to the Thirty-second 
degree in one week. Thus, the common pop- 
ular explanations of the vast system of sym- 
bols in Masonry are well fitted for the mul- 
titudes that swarm into the Lodges and 
Temples. There is very little sympathy be- 
tween those ignorant masses and the high- 
est and most sacred Truths. Sublime con- 
ceptions do not affiliate with barbarous oaths 
and a generally supported double standard 
of morality^ rendering human life a wreck 
in mockery. 

The Priesthood possessed one-third of 
Egypt, and they gained much of their influ- 
ence and power at that time, as they do to- 
day, by means of their knowledge of the 
Mysteries, sparing no effort to impress the 
people with a full sense of their own self im- 
portance; clerical egoism^ bigotry and offi- 
ciousness swaying the ignorant, credulous 

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masses as in times of yore. And tlms we 
ask, how long will the deep sleep of Adam 
continue ^ 

One of the important symbols of esoteric 
lore is the Serpent. It was consecrated in 
the Mysteries of Bacchus and Eleusis ; and 
the Serpent, in connection with the Circle, 
is found upon the monuments of all ancient 
Nations. 

In the Mysteries of Bacchus, the officers 
held serpents in their hands, raised them 
over their heads and shouted ''Heva," which 
was the original oriental name of the Ser- 
pent and of the Constellation in which the 
Persian placed Eve and the Serpent. This 
symbol, with the Dragon, presents to the 
student a field for research. 

The Temple of Solomon is a symbolic 
image of the Universe, ^'as above so below," 
and the marvelous human body, constructed 
without the sound of visible tools, is this 
imagery as seen by Ezekiel in his vision, and 
demonstrates the Kabalistic meaning of the 
Whole. 

In teaching this, the Mysteries strove to 
recall to man his Divine origin, and point 
out the means of his return to it. Without 
the help of symbology, no ancient scripture 
can ever be correctly understood. No Egyp- 
tian papyrus, Hebrew scroll, nor any other 

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old manuscript should ever be read and in- 
terpreted literally. Every scholar knows 
this. To accept the dead letter of the Bible 
indicates a brain not superior to the super- 
stition of the savage South Sea Islander. 

That very misleading Book is a vast and 
cunning compilation of the most recondite 
symbology, and each symbol and ridiculous 
fable has many meanings and interpreta- 
tions. It has ever been a most charming 
source of graft for crafty men who live an 
easy parasitic life upon the ignorance and 
credulity of a kow-towing, superstitious 
populace. 

There is ever a most strenuous effort made 
by selfish, evil powers which have long ex- 
ploited humanity, to destroy those who at- 
tempt to restore the stolen truths or inheri- 
tance to the Race where it belongs, and all 
ancient sacred books containing any truth 
of the Mysteries for the multitude were care- 
fully copied in cryptographic characters 
that would defy revelation^ and then the 
hooks were destroyed to the last copy. Those 
who could interpret the characters passed 
away, and the priceless knowledge was lost. 
Manuscripts were hidden away in places im- 
possible of access, and the cunning selfish- 
ness of Black Magic reigned over Truth 
until it has been only a lost inheritance for 

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centuries, so garbled and buried under the 
depravity of masculine authority that the 
persevering effort of its restoration will 
cause many noNe characters to perish. But 
the time has arrived when the doors of 
Truth must open for mankind^ evil resist- 
ance must fall, powerless to longer support 
the crimes that make only a mockery of 
human life. Better that humanity should 
perish en masse from the face of the Earth 
than continue to live dominated and en- 
slaved iy evil. 

The religious and esoteric history of every 
Nation was embedded in symbols, never ex- 
pressed literally in so many words, because 
the spoken word has a potency not only un- 
known, but even unsuspected, and natur- 
ally disbelieved in by the modern sages. 

Sound and rhythm are closely related to 
the four elements of the Ancients, and cer- 
tain vibrations in the air are sure to awaken 
the corresponding powers which, in uniting, 
produce good or bad results, as the case 
may be. 

No student was ever allowed to recite his- 
torical, religious or real events in so many 
plain words, lest the powers connected with 
the event should be attracted. Symbols were 
always used to record the narrations of the 
ceremonies of Initiation. The writing of 

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the Japanese and Chinese is symbolic ; thus, 
they can communicate in writing, although 
not understanding a word of the language. 

Fohat, or the essence of Cosmic Electric- 
ity, is the key in occultism which opens the 
multiform symbols and allegories in the so- 
called mythology of every Nation, for there 
was a time when the whole world was of one 
Lip and one Knowledge, and mankind knew 
its own origin, understanding the direct 
causative agents of the appearance of Self 
Conscious human life on this Planet; and 
sins of old arose from the abuse of this 
knowledge ; which leads us to ask, were those 
sins equal to the Mackness of the sins of to- 
day, perpetuated because of the complete 
ignorance of all occult knowledge of Life 
and Law, and the far-reaching influence for 
wrong and evil, when there is no under- 
standing of the Real? 

The exact and marvelous majesty of the 
Mysteries of Nature are to be found only in 
Eastern esoteric science, and known only to 
the few, but it is all there, vast and pro- 
found, and one by one the facts and proc- 
esses in Nature 's workshop are permitted to 
find their way out, while mysteries help is 
given to rare individuals in unravelling its 
arcana. 

There are no ancient symbols without a 

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deep philosophical meaning ; much of mod- 
ern symbology is worthless, and students 
must distinguish by their own knowledge 
and judgment, ever remembering the Dual 
Law, for the most important symbols can be 
of no great value to the untrained mind that 
fails to understand both the physical and 
spiritual powers of Nature. 

^^M" is a most sacred letter in all lan- 
guages; it is androgyne and signifies water 
as the great deep, Pharaoh's daughter 
named the infant she discovered ilf-oses be- 
cause she said, ^'I drew him from the 
water." This Biblical fable was based upon 
the Babylonian story of Sargon, who lived 
far earlier than Moses. The passage through 
the waters of the Eed Sea is only a picture 
of the continued passage of the human Race 
through physical life, where Pharaoh's 
hosts of evil finally cannot cross to the other 
shore. 

The two letters, M. A., are numerically 
five, composed of two and three. The binary, 
a symbol of the separated sexes, and the ter- 
nary represents the Third Life or Offspring, 
This is of much significance and meaning as 
as symbol. 

Fire and Water, or Creation and Genera- 
tion, are symbolized by the lotus, a promi- 
nent figure on the old temple walls of Egypt. 

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The Ancients so well understood the spir- 
ituality of the ultimate generating power 
that, while concealing it under various alle- 
gories for the benefit (or the detriment) of 
the uneducated rabble, they never departed 
from the multiple object in view. They in- 
vested the properties of the material ele- 
ments and contrived to throw a thick veil 
over the real truth concealed by the symbol, 
leaving it sufficiently transparent to allow 
their wise men to discern the truth behind 
the fabulous form of the symbol or allegory. 
And thus we learn the selfishness of the 
Sages who have used their powers for cen- 
turies to crucify humanity and render Self 
Conscious Life on this material plane only 
a cruel crucifixion. 

Spirit and Matter, though the same in 
origin, when once they are on the plane of 
differentiation begin each of them their evo- 
lutionary progress in contrary directions; 
Spirit seeking or falling into Matter and 
Matter seeking to ascend to Spirit. This is 
sjonbolized by the triangle and cube of the 
Masonic Apron. Both are inseparable, yet 
ever separated; also, by the Rosary of the 
Catholics. Circle and diameter, fifty-five 
beads in the circle, or the complete number 
Ten. These marvelous symbols represent 
Woman and Man, the two great Dual powers 

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on this material plane, seeking, in their 
march toward Light, to fulfill the Law. It 
requires both Jakin and Bohaz to sustain 
the great universal Temple or human Life 
wave, and Woman is the Master Builder, 
producing all manifestation in form by the 
Divine feminine creative power; and the 
sustaining Law of Equilibrium must be pre- 
served between these two great pillars of the 
mighty structure, or it will sink down into 
destruction, making hideous its fall, by 
floating over the rapids of final chaos in the 
deep scarlet of human blood. 

This, the present condition of ''The Wid- 
ow's Son" or fallen Conscious Life, is the 
result of assumed superiority of one totter- 
ing pillar, rendered more insecure and un- 
safe every day by supreme egoism and sel- 
fishness seeking dominance without Soul, 
ever aiming to destroy the Soul of the Race, 
the Companion Pillar, 

The symbol of antiquity for sacred and 
secret knowledge was universally a tree, 
which also typified a scripture or record. 
Juno giving Jupiter on her marriage, a tree 
with golden fruit, is only another form of 
Eve offering Adam the apple from the Tree 
of Knowledge, and without Eve, he would 
never have awakened to know there was an 
apple to eat. 

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The mysterious power of occult symbolism 
is such that a few pages of geometrical signs 
can explain that which has occupied count- 
less generations of Seers and Prophets to set 
down and arrange in the bewildering series 
of evolutionary progress. A flashing gaze 
into the depths of a symbol has penetrated 
the kernel of matter and written down the 
soul of things. But alas! modern science 
believes not in the soul of things, and cannot 
even accept the fact that the present method 
of procreation, now so alarmingly common^ 
on this Planet to sustain the phenomena of 
Life, is only a passing phase ; it must change 
and will finally disappear with the next 
Eoot Race. 

Those most learned scientists of Occult 
Law can safely assert this, because they 
know it, and in various ways it is typified, 
but without the knowledge of symbology no 
ancient writings of scripture can ever be 
understood, and there is no real education 
where symbols have no meaning to the mind 
and soul. 

Phallic worship developed only with the 
loss of the Keys to the true meaning of sym- 
bols. It was the last and most fatal turning 
from the highway of Truth and Divine 
Knowledge into the thorny side paths of 
falsity and dogma, bolstered and fostered by 

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human and hierarcMc duplicity and am- 
bition. 

The twenty-two letters of the Hebrew 
alphabet are mostly phallic symbols, but the 
old Aryans never based their religion solely 
on physiological symbols. However, when 
read esoterically they will all yield the same 
meaning; and from the highest heavenly 
man who is androgyne, down to the sepa- 
rated Adam of dust personified, symbols are 
all connected with sex and procreation. But 
the Eastern occultist regards the mundane 
relation of opposites dominated by illusion, 
a something to be put aside the moment per- 
sons become wise. For the dual powers were 
to them an imagery of the sublime correla- 
tion of Creative Cosmic forces, and Adam, 
Jehovah and Brahma are symbols for prim- 
itive generative powers for the purpose of 
human procreation, symbolized by the Cross. 

The Keys to the inner meaning of relig- 
ious symbols were gradually lost, then Juda- 
ism was developed, built solely on phallic 
worship, perverted theologically into a re- 
ligion of hate and malice toward everything 
outside of itself. 

It was with the Talmudic Jews that the 
grand symbols of nature were secretly most 
profaned. They truly crucified the truths 
belonging to humanity, for they knew the 

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meaning of Jehovah, the Pillar of Jacoh, 
their Bethels, etc, and they also knew that 
the Bihle was invented as a popular Hind, 
But the deluded masses have closed their 
eyes, making no effort to see the facts before 
them. Missionaries continue to make trouble 
in foreign lands, the pulpit feeds with ease 
upon the credulity of the deluded, and the 
multitudes seem unable to awaken to view 
the ruin, woe and wretchedness around 
them, great monuments of evil, the result of 
the rule and reign of Priestcraft and Ortho- 
doxy, and such must be the World 's history 
until Truth is restored and falsity de- 
throned. Then will the true meaning of the 
Cross be understood, and its four points in 
Nature be revealed as Birth, Life, Death and 
Immortality. 

The Cross and Circle are symbols as old 
as the human mind, and express great sci- 
entific truths, having a direct bearing upon 
psychological as well as physiological 
mysteries. 

Here we must briefly digress, that women 
may have a better view of the monuments of 
ruin and woe, erected by a Man-ruled World 
and bolstered by secret fraternities and en- 
throned pulpits of bigotry, egoism, and 
falsity. 

Our latest statistics reveal the fact that 

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not less than 10% of the present population 
of the United States is mentally defective. 
The Jails, Penitentiaries, Almshouses, and 
Reformatories are filled with defectives and 
degenerates, who are allowed to return un- 
restrained to outside life, where with exag- 
gerated sex impulse they reproduce their 
kind from two to six times more rapidly 
than do normal people. Infectious diseases 
are quarantined, but little is done to stem 
the tide of degeneracy and pollution of our 
normal population. We must face the fact 
that the very life blood of our Nation is 
being poisoned by the rapid increase of 
mental and moral defectives. The great 
*' Goethe" said, ^^ Pools and sensible people 
are alike harmless. It is the half foolish and 
half wise who are most dangerous." 

In New York State alone there are over 
two hundred thousand mental defectives, a 
number of whom are drug addicts, drunk- 
ards, delinquents, epileptics, etc., the very 
^^Bete Noir" of the human Race and ever 
its worst enemy. Throughout the United 
States $94,000,000 is annually spent for the 
care of the insane, and $90,000,000 for men- 
tal defectives — a helpless and hopeless popu- 
lation, while worthy, normal, useful people 
toil and struggle to exist. We find among 
the statistics one registered family boasting 

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of having twenty-two children all imheciles, 
both parents being mental defectives. Glo- 
rious and elevated example of Churchism, 
birth control being an ignominious sin under 
the light ( ^) of Priestly instruction. And 
the density and credulity of women support 
this appalling cancerous evil, destructive to 
all Nations, None of these conditions or any 
of the so-called social diseases are self elim- 
inating. It is estimated that 15,000,000 men 
in our liberty loving Nation are annually 
infected with venereal disease, and they in 
turn infect a greater number of women. 
Thus we view the march toward Light of a 
Christian Civilization under the man-made 
double standard of morality. 

Endless is the search for Truth, but by 
aspiration we continue the quest over the 
complete journey, from protoplasm back to 
the source of our Being. The study of 
Ancient Wisdom in the old dramas reveals 
much truth. In reading the Prometheus 
Bound, enacted in the theatres of Athens 
over two thousand years ago, it opens the 
door of understanding when ive know what 
Prometheus sym'bolizes, and how he stole the 
Fire from Heaven. And the Pythagorean 
Triangle, with the ten points, is of more 
value in real knowledge than all the theog- 
onies and angelologies that ever emanated 

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from Orthodox bigotry, or the brilliant 
brains of Jesuitism, with the scattered ideas 
floating out from pulpit oratory at so much 
per capita. Priceless knowledge has been 
cast into the deep sea of oblivion by evil 
hatred, selfishness and persecution. Neither 
will commercialism, duplicity, greed, and 
cunning ever raise the veil. 

Biblical symbology is so complex and un- 
limited that we can only mention it in this 
small work. In the Bible, the less is always 
employed to represent the greater. Thus 
the name of one man, Adam, Cain, Abraham, 
etc., always symbolizes a particular class of 
created human beings ; while the word man 
itself represents the spiritual Man, The 
system is then harmonized by using various 
naturalistic terms, such as grass, herb, trees, 
fishes, cattle, etc., to illustrate advancing de- 
grees of spiritual life in the Natural Man. 
Dimensional symbolism being similar, the 
Ark, the Tabernacle, and Temple represent 
the great realms of Life of the Third Heav- 
en, Paradise, and the Physical Universe. 

Bear in mind that everything in symbol- 
ism is designed to aid and inform the Ini- 
tiate, not the masses grinding on in the 
Wheel of the Law, ignorant of the pitiless 
arrogance of the privileged few, the sacer- 
dotal caste, etc. Truth is the greatest prin- 

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ciple of the Universe, all the ills of the 
world and our ignorance of the Deity is 
attributable to centuries of false teaching 
(Hiram was first struck by false speech) . 

Retirement from the world of falsities 
and illusions is desirable because the pas- 
sions and desires, hopes and fears, which the 
social state engender, are all hostile to tran- 
quility of Soul, and prevent that undis- 
turbed meditation upon the great powers of 
the Universe and mankind which is neces- 
sary to their comprehension. 

In Biblical symbology, we learn how mis- 
leading has been the literal teaching from 
that source. The following are a few 
examples : 

Grass, symbolizes the earliest signs of 
spiritual growth. 

Fruit trees, spiritual f ruitfulness. 

Dead trees, spiritually dead men. 

Thorns, evil qualities in man, as he learns 
the Law. 

Creatures in the water, i. e., fish, etc., 
typify growth toward God in the midst of 
evil (or water). Christ walked upon the 
water (i. e., evil) and did not sink or perish. 
To walk implies moving towards the accom- 
plishment of the redemptive plan. 

Flying fowl, men who arise in freedom 
from things of earth. 

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Beasts of the earth and Cattle, men taking 
upon themselves the burdens of God's work 
in the world. 

Leviathan and whale, great powers of evil. 

Creeping things, debased men. 

Birds of prey, fowls of the heaven, evil 
agencies destroying man as he learns of the 
Law. 

Wild beasts and dragons, evil intelli- 
gences, and sometimes evil men ; these were 
sought by Nimrod, the mighty hunter. 

The Sun, Love; the Moon, Faith; the 
Stars, heavenly virtues. 

The Earth, any basis of life. 

The dry land, the part of man's nature to 
be cultivated. 

The sea, or raging salt waters, the powers 
of Hell. 

Rain, the gentle precipitation of evil. 

Wind, activity of the spirit. 

Mountains, heighth of knowledge, or gov- 
erning laws. 

Clouds, cosmical processes veiling the God 
Power. 

Valleys, life in a relatively ignorant state. 

The City, activity in life, arising from a 
spiritual state. 

Island, a sphere of life surrounded by evil 
(the sea). 

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Oil, the presence of holiness in the nature 
of mankind. 

The Wilderness, alienated humanity. 

The Desert, deficiency of spirtual re- 
freshment. 

The Earthquake, any spiritual event 
greatly altering the view of life by mankind. 

Intoxication, the enjoyment of evil. 

Ahel and Cain, the spiritual and natural 
mankind, between whom there exists an 
essential antagonism. 

The Ark, the safe guarding environment 
of three planes, the physical, life. Paradise, 
and the Third Heaven, the highest and holi- 
est state in time. 

Egypt and Baiylon, the state of conscious 
life in its most debased condition. 

Ninevah, a less selfish phase of worldly 
life. 

Tyre, the city of sea power, or the center 
of evil. 

Pharaoh, the ruling power of lawlessness. 

Father and Mother, natural origin from 
the alienated state. 

True marriage, the choice of spiritual 
good. 

Concubinage, the choice of spiritual evil. 

East, direction of Light or approach to 
God. 

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West, alienation, or the direction from 
which enmity to God arises. 

North and South, the natural physical life 
of man under the work of God, or the Law ; 
spiritual alienation to be regenerated. 

Silver ornamentation, attachment to the 
life of Deity. 

Gold, love. 

Famine, the insatiable hunger experienced 
in the pursuit of worldly life. 

Fire, the purifying process of the God 
Power, or Law, which either refines or 
destroys. 

The darkness of the Sun, love obscured 
through the violence of evil. 

The Moon turned to Mood, evil predom- 
inating over faith, rendering faith in ap- 
pearance synonymous with suffering. 

And thus we might continue with proofs 
of Bible allegories and symbolism, including 
the absurd fables of Abraham, Jonah, and 
Job, etc., but it is unnecessary. Enlightened 
people prefer reason and common sense; 
they study the Book of Nature to learn 
Truth and Law, and prefer the Golden Rule 
of Confucious to creeds and collection bags. 

The Masonic ''House of the Temple" at 
Washington, D. C, affords proof of the hid- 
den knowledge. First, Jakin and Bohaz are 
represented by the two mysterious Sphinx, 

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decorated with other significant emilems. 
Bohaz has her eyes closed, a fitting symbol 
of womankind which is no evidence of wis- 
dom. But, mounting the great interior white 
marble stairway leading to the Holy Divine 
Altar or Inner Temple, one observes that 
this sacred center of consecration can only 
be approached by passing between the fig- 
ures of Isis and Nepthys. Isis was the con- 
sort of Osiris, and Nepthys, Ms sister. Thus, 
you readily understand that no complete 
attainment can be accomplished in endeav- 
oring to reach the goal by ascending the 
majestic stairway, without an associate com- 
panion, and the Divine feminine faculties of 
soul development, represented by the sister, 
Nepthys. Only under the great Divine Law 
can the stately palace be approached. Oth- 
erwise the real door remains closed. 

The symbols of supreme significance in 
Masonry are the Masonic Apron and the 
Forty-seventh Problem. Learn them in all 
their perfection and you have reached the 
Light of understanding of the recondite 
knowledge of the Deity, the Universe, and 
Mankind. In other words, you know. 

The student of the vast domain of Occult 
Lore must first, last and always bear in mind 
that Dual Law reigns supreme, and is every- 
where evident. It is the guide from the tan- 

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gled paths of the foothills to make clear the 
radiant light of the mountain top, symbol- 
ized by the White Lambskin of the Masonic 
Apron, which represents the essential white 
electric light or creative power of the Uni- 
verse, and is the Paschal or Passover Lamb 
(in one of its meanings) that taketh away 
the sin of the world. Triangle and Square, 
Man and Woman, the Great Dual, and 
everywhere the dual law seeks Unity 
Equilibrium. 

On a frieze of black marble in a Masonic 
Temple, we read the following : 

'^FEOM THE OUTER DARKNESS OF IGNORANCE 
THROUGH THE SHADOWS OF OUR EARTH LIFE^ 
WINDS THE BEAUTIFUL PATH OF INITIATION 
UNTO THE DIVINE LIGHT OF THE HOLY ALTAR." 

And understand that one-half of the great 
Life stream can never complete the winding 
journey alone, for the ever enduring majesty 
of the Dual Law must eventually rule and 
reign supreme. 



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LESSON FIRST. 

AS previously stated, all the vast sym- 
bolism, dramatic work, and secrecy 

__ of Masonry, is but an allegory of the 
journey of the Soul through the density of 
Matter, where toil and struggle, combined 
with the sorrow and depression of disap- 
pointment in understanding, makes the jour- 
ney most strenuous and difficult. 

The great *'E1 Camino Real", from pro- 
toplasm, through the deviating Path of Evo- 
lution of Body, Mind and Soul, back to the 
great ocean of Infinitude, the fountain 
source of our being, is a highway of experi- 
ence, unpleasant and unsafe without the 
requisite knowledge to guide us over the con- 
cealed places of danger, and it is only the 
Brethren that are supposed to walk over the 
black and white chequered floor without 
stumbling ; but we learn that they do stum- 
ble, and fall, ever dragging some one more 
worthy down with them, which is evidence 
that the requisite knowledge is lost to them, 
equal with the multitude. 

Page 101, Morals and Dogma, reveals to 
us that there is something to learn, and this 
knowledge of Law is the inheritance of the 

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Race, but has been concealed and lost, — ^is 
only known as the '^Lost Word'', and by 
perseverance in study and investigation 
alone, can we ever recover any perception 
and understanding of the Great Laws which 
govern the Universe and our own existence. 
Those who aspire to again walk with the 
Gods, as in the time of the mythical Adam, 
must study the mystic '*G", and learn to 
model their life after the Divine Plan. An 
understanding of this Plan of Life and Law 
is most essential to woman in her struggling 
evolution, for she will be forced, in time, by 
its power and influence, to awaken from her 
long senseless slumber to which, she should 
never have allowed herself to have been sub- 
jected. 

The Lost Knowledge of secret fraternities 
concerns woman more than man, and is 
based upon the mystery of the separation of 
androgynous mankind into distinct male and 
female; the understanding of Generation 
and Rebirth, and the herculean task in 
accomplishment of the Great Work, by the 
return of humanity again to Unity and 
Equilibrium, plus the gain of knowledge, by 
experience, during the separation. 

When the original Delphic Oracle, '*Know 
Thyself Through the Mysteries of Sex", was 
destroyed, the ignorance of humanity so ob- 

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scured the light of understanding, that the 
Way of Life was lost in the darkness of 
Eternal Mght; and present conditions are 
but the 'beginning of the harvest of degrada- 
tion from those evil results. Nations, and 
individual units of same, reap whatsoever 
they sow. Such is the unchangeable Law of 
Destiny, and, during the next reign of terror 
not so far in the distant future, humanity 
must learn ^^that vengeance is mine I will 
repay saith the Law'\ 

These unhappy experiences may hasten 
the striking of the hour, when a shackeled 
and benighted populace will forcibly rise up 
and demand the Truth which shall make 
them Free. 

Histories are man written, and mostly un- 
true. It is his-story, wherein to conceal the 
truth, has always been policy for Church and 
State. Pulpits and Thrones, man-ruled and 
ridden, ever plunging the World in atrocious 
wars, slaying their fellow creature, and, as 
Eulers, covering themselves with pomp and 
glory, holding a personal God as silent part- 
ner, while they pass around a junk of medals 
and iron crosses of pot-metal, to reward the 
starving, legless and armless victims of so- 
called patriotism. Vain, glorious power; 
duplicity is thy name! 

Women were known in the Masonic Lodge 

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up to 1806, and the historical Josephine 
was the last High Priestess of Masonry, 
held a prisoner at Malmaison, by two Gov- 
ernments, until the last moment of her life, 
that she might not reveal her knowledge of 
the atrocious Masonic French Revolution, 
and for which, the ambitious and soulless 
Napoleon married her. Their charming life 
together being only a fable, as written in 
history, for a purpose. 



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LESSON SECOND 

OF all the various secret fraternities, 
Free Masonry is the most powerful, 
(to know one, you know all) and is 
under a hierarchial form of government. 
Its influence, combined with that of Church 
hierarchies, establishes a most insidious and 
mighty adversary to the enlightenment and 
general progress of the masses. Of this, the 
majority of the Order must be cognizant, 
however uninstructed they are in the grand 
philosophy, science, and religion, of their 
own spiritual truths, which embrace a scope 
of knowledge vast and inspiring, expressed 
in symbology and allegory, no definite ex- 
planation of which can be given in detail, 
in so small a work as this. 

The number of degrees are superfluous; 
the Three Blue degrees, with the united 
Mark Master belonging to the Fellow Craft, 
and the sublime Royal Arch degree, origi- 
nally contained all the instruction of the 
Ancient Mysteries, but they were dismem- 
bered of their value about the middle of the 
18th century, and the present Order is a sys- 
tem of degree commercialism — a graft — de- 
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of the Fraternity. Selfishness is the mighty 
fountain source of all evil, and, combined 
with the protection of an oath of the bar- 
barous age, equal for the unworthy as 
worthy, who are freely admitted for the 
price per capita, it forms a coalition, which 
is not productive of Race elevation, or Jus- 
tice and Good Will to mankind. 

The great vice of the age, is falsity and its 
twin companion, dishonesty, under which 
the majority of secret fraternities have been 
misled, not realizing the mighty scope of 
their philosophy and religion. 

Masonry is a vast field of profound knowl- 
edge of science, philosophy and religion, and 
whether Masons know it or not, its symbols 
represent the Creator and His Wisdom, 
Word, and Manifestation, aiding its stu- 
dents to comprehend the great highway from 
protoplasm back to God, or, the journey of 
the Soul through physical life. The different 
and superfluous degrees were invented as the 
number of initiates increased, in order that 
there might be an ^^ inner apartment" of the 
Temple for a favored few, to whom alone 
the more valuable secrets are intrusted, and 
who can effectually wield the influence and 
power of the Order. Thus, Masonic Myste- 
ries have been made use of to build wider, 
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own power ; and the Sacred Altar has been 
changed to the gilded throne, on which to 
reign supreme, while the multitudes of hu- 
manity, like dumb cattle, have been content 
to accept fraud and falsity, cunning and 
hypocritical flattery, in preference to Truth, 
Honor and Justice. 

The four essential degrees of Masonry, 
before mentioned, present a wide and inex- 
haustible field for study and contemplation, 
worthy of the most careful attention of all 
students, as they differentiate states of life, 
material and Cosmic ; and unnumerable de- 
ductions may be drawn from the symbolism 
of the furniture of the Tabernacle, etc., and 
from the Cosmical philosophy of life that 
determined the construction of King Solo- 
mon's Temple (an allegory). ^^As above so 
below". 

The first order of Life, is the physical uni- 
verse, or alienation in Time, symbolized by 
the first or Entered Apprentice degree. All 
symbols have more than one meaning, but 
necessarily refer indirectly to the great dual 
forces of existence, united or separated 
under the Law of Generation and Rebirth, 
and the return of Jakin and Bohaz again to 
Unity and Equilibrium. This was also the 
basic foundation of all cults and philoso- 
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of Asia originally having a code of three 
progressive degrees. 

This small Work can only touch the vast 
and recondite net work of symbolism, but, 
as the demands of our School increase in 
woman's expansion of Mind and Soul Con- 
sciousness, a larger and more explicit work 
can reasonably be expected. 

While Masonry is a grand system of scien- 
tific lore and a religion of lofty understand- 
ing, its essence, is its universality, and it em- 
braces no distinct creed or sect. 

The first requirement of the Entered Ap- 
prentice, is a belief in that existing Power 
called God, or the Great Architect of the 
Universe. Passing through the columns of 
Jakin and Bohaz, he enters the Lodge, i. e., 
Material Universe, by a torture, being told 
to **take heed upon what he enters", signify- 
ing, to be watchful and attentive to your 
trials and experiences in life, — learn the 
Law. He is told of three precious jewels 
which are, a listening ear, a silent tongue^ 
and a faithful heart. In Ancient Masonry 
it reads, an instructive tongue, — which 
disposes of the ^' Heart that conceals, and the 
Tongue that never reveals". The change 
was made when the Jesuits and Masons were 
a united body (and at present time all Jes- 
uites and Jesuitic principles are not confined 
to Rome). 

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The First degree candidate is told to 
search himself for that which it is known he 
does not possess, (i. e., the strength of 
knowledge, or metal). He is not clothed, 
''Search yourself Brother'', is equivalent to 
the dismembered Delphic Oracle *^Know 
Thyself'^ 

The number Three is conspicuous in this 
degree, confronting the candidate before he 
enters, and by it, he gains admission. It is 
the Triune Key that unlocks the Universe, 
There are three Blue Degrees, three Grand 
Masters, three Altar Lights, three principle 
Officers, three Gates of the Temple, three 
Assassins, and Hiram was slain by three 
blows. These have a profound meaning, and 
Body, Soul and Spirit, are worthy of con- 
templation. 

The candidate takes a most blood curdling 
oath to never reveal the Secrets of Masonry, 
which he does not knoiv, and has no ^brilliant 
prospect of ever knowing, for, in their en- 
tirety they are lost to the Order. His atten- 
tion is called to the Floor of the Lodge, cov- 
ered with black and white squares, repre- 
senting good and evil; and he is told the 
brethren walk thereon without stumbling; 
but there is nothing said about the faltering, 
stumbling, and struggling multitudes out- 
side, wrecking their lives through ignorance 
of the Divine Law. 

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Here, we will briefly digress, to record the 
civilized oath of the White Brotherhood, 
hoping it may be compared with the oaths 
of savagery and barbarism so uncalled for 
and unnecessary in this period of Evolution. 
*'In the presence of the Divine Creator and 
this respectable assembly, I solemnly prom- 
ise and swear that I will devote all my life, 
my energies, my influence, and my means, to 
the rehabilitation of mankind in its most 
sacred privilege of moral, physical, and 
intellectual liberty, regardless of the preju- 
dices of sex, social station, creed, politics, or 
color. Further, that I will unite in Soul and 
body, with the members of this Order wher- 
ever assembled for the good of mankind. 
Furthermore, I solemnly promise and swear 
to extend to all worthy distressed members 
of the Order that I may meet, unconditional 
assistance, whatever their wrongs may be, 
robbery and perjury excepted. All this I 
solemnly and sincerely promise and swear, 
with the firm resolution to perform the same, 
binding myself under no less penalty than 
that of being expelled from the Order. So 
help me God". (Note the word Robbery in 
the above, study its broad meaning,) 

No other oath was deemed necessary to 
establish the loyalty of a man of character 
and principle, and no man without character 

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and principle should ever be admitted to an 
assembly where Truth is sacred. 

Again taking up the thread of our Lesson,, 
we learn that after the ceremony of remov- 
ing the bandage from the eyes of the candi- 
date, the Master says, '^Brother, you first 
discover three great lights in Masonry by the 
assistance of three lesser ones; the three 
greater lights are the Bible on which is 
placed Compass and Square. The Lesser 
Lights are three burning tapers in a tri- 
angu' r group representing the Sun, Moon, 
and Master of the Lodge." (So the candidate 
is told.) But he is not told that the Bible 
pre-eminently represents the Law, nothing 
more, and the Compass and Square without 
the letter ^^G" symbolizes Man and Woman 
regenerate, having transcended the Law of 
the material plane; and, the three lesser 
lights are, man and woman properly guided 
in generation (by Mercury or Wisdom) 
being able, by the knowledge of experience, 
to see their way to regeneration, or the three 
great lights. 



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FOREWORD TO LESSON III. 

MANY men have arisen who had 
glimpses of the Truth and fancied 
they had it all. The Trinity of Na- 
ture is the Magic Lock, the trinity of man 
the key that fits it. Power belongs to those 
who know. There is no miracle ; everything 
that happens is the result of eternal, immu- 
table Law, ever active. Nature is triune 
(symbolized by the many threes of the 
Lodge) . There is a visible, objective nature, 
an invisible indwelling energising nature, 
its vital principle, and above these two. 
Spirit, source of all forces, ever indestructi- 
ble. The lower two constantly change, the 
higher third is unchangable. Mankind is 
also triune. 

The great Corner Stone of Magic or Occult 
Powers of Nature is an intimate and prac- 
tical knowledge of magnetism and elec- 
tricity, their qualities, correlations, and 
potencies, especially necessary, is a famil- 
iarity with their effects in, and upon, the 
animal kingdom and man. Human beings 
are magnets, and proper mental endowment 
enhances their power. One common, vital 
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controllable by the perfected human will, or 
understanding. 

To sum up in a few words, Magic, is Spir- 
itual Wisdom, Beware of the illusions of 
Matter. Spiritualists start with the fallacy 
that all phenomena are caused by the action 
of departed human spirits. They have not 
looked into the powers of the human spirit, 
yet indwelling. May true Souls lift aside the 
curtain and gaze undazzled upon the un- 
veiled Truth! 



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LESSON THREE. 

THE word Fellow Craft means, an asso- 
ciate, an equal. Craft, — a drawing 
together^ or secret power. In Ancient 
Masonry this degree signifies physical and 
terrestrial paradise universe, and, combined 
with the Mark Master in its originality, it 
teaches that here is gained the gift of 
Eternal Life as a mark of approval of a 
man's life, the evidence that his worJc has 
been accepted. Strike, Brother, omd make 
your mark! has a far-reaching significance. 
The candidate is here to establish a belief in 
a resurrection to a future life, and the trend 
of symbology evidences the great Dual Law 
sustaining life on the Material Plane, and 
establishing it as progressive. 

This degree is important in the journey 
of the Soul existence, and preeminently 
teaches the great necessity of knowledge, 
which alone constitutes Mastery. It is here 
in the Middle Chamber, where the candidate 
has been admitted for the sake of the letter 
^^G" (or Generation) that he is expected to 
learn the value in knowledge, and the requi- 
site "Onderstanding of the mighty Dual Law 
of Life, which is so necessary to woman and 

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man (as the EloMm of this Plane) that they 
may preserve and sustain the integrity and 
progressive Evolution of their Race on its 
way to the acquirement of Divine Reason. 

This priceless Lore has been lost and de- 
stroyed, by the giant evil of selfishness, and 
thus we mentally behold today our Planet 
plunged in destructive degeneracy, crime 
and chaos. It is the duty of men and women 
to ask, Why'? and seek the origin of these 
gigantic wrongs, as there is no explanation 
of same given to humanity, from the Pulpit 
or hy the Press. 

Americas' greatest Masonic savant has 
written, that knowledge is the most genuine 
of all human treasures. It is the light dis- 
pelling the darkness of ignorance, and upon 
its acquisition depends the growth of Soul 
which at the birth of man, exists only in 
potency. But he refers to a definite hind of 
knowledge. It is not acquired in colleges, 
and is concealed from humanity in general. 
It does not come knocking at our door ; we 
must seek it where it is to be found. We 
must knotv facts concealed and revealed, and 
must ever base our judgment upon motive; 
aspiring, reflecting, and comprehending, 
ever evolving toward that sovereign power 
of which we are but a Living reflection. 

The great, dumb masses of the people are 

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blinded by superstition, defenseless through 
ignorance, bound by chains of despotism, 
toiling to pay tribute to the Soul in bondage 
to Church hierarchies, who exterminate 
heretics in the name of a God of Mercy and 
a loving Redeemer, poor and humiliated, yet 
ever longing for the Light of Understand- 
ing. And this condition is symbolized by 
the candidate in the Lodge, unclothed, blind- 
folded, penniless, destitute, and shackled by 
the cable tow. 

A powerful organization understands 
these facts, but their most strenuous efforts 
are directed toward a perpetual continuance 
of this deplorable state for humanity, 
regardless of the results. 

False religions and suppression, has 
forced woman to wander far from the Path 
of Wisdom and Understanding in this great 
school of experience, called Life. Thus her 
summary in harvest has ever been, ignor- 
ance, pain, and sorrow, having no aspiration 
to investigate for herself, credulously ac- 
cepting whatever is told her under the man 
rule, and should a faint gleam of light pene- 
trate her benighted Soul, she immediately 
crowns it as New Thought, not realizing that 
all thought of importance is as old as the 
World, and free to acquire, never doled out 
at five dollars a lesson, *^per capita'^ ; and 

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Truth alone, means liberty in expansion of 
consciousness. All falsity and perfidy event- 
ually meaning enslavement, degregadation, 
and destruction. 

It is the privilege and dtiti/ of woman, to 
learn why the mysteries of secret fraterni- 
ties are so carefully concealed from her ; also 
to know that polygamy (one of the darkest 
pages of America's history) and its influen- 
tial Mormon Church, was established by 
Masons of high degree, and retained in good 
standing. 

The Fellow Craft degree is preeminent in 
duality y and woman is here symbolized in 
ways of ingenuity and cunning, her name 
being ignored ; only brethren are mentioned, 
misleading the candidate. The knocks, the 
grips, the cable tow, the circuit of the Lodge, 
the synthesis of Numbers, etc., all refer to 
the Dual Forces; and the multitudes failed 
to pass over Jordan (the celestial stream) by 
not understanding the androgynous ear of 
corn, and leaving the divine feminine, first 
letter ^'H'\ out of the pass word. Also, the 
candidate fails to observe the golden door 
of the tabernacle, and the virtue of the hid- 
den manna. 

In the Middle Chamber, where he is to 
make his mark of approval for Divine Life, 
he is advised to study the ^^Book of Nature, 

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brother, it dears the stamp of Deity, (not the 
Bible). And the conditions of the outside 
world today should suggest to him to '^re- 
flect, brother" upon what all this misleading 
falsity, and belittling the ability, power, and 
influence of woman, has done for the Race 
of which you are supposed to be a sustaining 
unit. Bohaz, equal with Jakin, those superb 
brazen pillars, cast between Succoth and 
Zaradatha (i. e., by the Dual Force of Posi- 
tive and Negative) near the banks of the 
celestial stream, is required to sustain the 
Temple. No civilization can ever be per- 
manent without these united forces in equi- 
librium, and in very ancient masonry, the 
candidate was told to work well his allotted 
time, and if his Master, (i. e. higher self) 
approved of the work, he could take his 
tools to the Column of Bohaz and receive his 
wages, (i. e., Travelling in foreign countries, 
an Immortal). The progressive idea of the 
instruction of the following degrees. 

But this was in the time of Masonry when 
it meant something lofty in conception of 
Spiritual Truth. It is to-day, a dead and 
voiceless shell, tossed upon the strand of 
Time; a soulless, selfish, commercial 'and 
political power, a menace to Eace enlight- 
enment; and the only possible redemption 
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and scientific religion, and its magnificent 
conception of Truth in symbolism is through 
the enligfitenment of woman. **Seek 
brother", to know for yourself, the motive 
of those, by whom you have been misled for 
centuries. 



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1"^ HE celestial, pure Fire of ancient 
Altars was electricity drawn from the 
Astral Light. To know Fire, the Sun, 
the Moon, and Lightning (or electricity) is 
three-fourths of the Science of Deity; and 
no one will deny that the human being is 
possessed of various forces, magnetic, sym- 
pathetic, nervous, dynamic, occult, mechani- 
cal, mental, etc. ; and physical forces are all 
connected with the Science of Life; their 
essence often merging into the intellectual 
and moral ; this cunningly forming the very 
substance of our being, i. e., the Ego. 

The Deity is the one existence, an arcane 
living or moving Fire, and the eternal wit- 
nesses to this unseen presence are Light, 
Heat and Moisture ; not as we know them on 
this material plane, but the Soul essence of 
these physical manifestations. 

The higher aspect of light is Living Fire, 
without which only creatures of Matter can 
be produced. This is the Light for which 
Masons search, travelling from west to east. 
Do they find it ? Many travel hut few seek 
to understand. Thus perished Hiram, the 
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ness, from lack of proper development or 
growth from within, outward. 

The unf oldment of soul and mind potency, 
on the journey through the Material Uni- 
verse, symbolized by the Blue Lodge or Law 
(Blue typifying Law, i. e.. Lodge of Law), 
Fire worship, or the ancient Persian relig- 
ious philosophy (the religion of Masonry), 
alone explains, and to this religion of Truth 
mankind will return in the Sixth Epoch, 

If Thou wouldst understand the second- 
ary creation^ through the marvelous knowl- 
edge of ^^ Tubal Cain" (that power which 
raised Hiram), Thou should first learn its 
relation to the primary creation. When 
progeny are created and not iegat (i. e., just 
produced without thought), then will hu- 
manity have discovered their own powers of 
procreation; also the great Law of the sec- 
ondary or higher creation, which Hiram 
failed to assimilate on his way. That Divine 
Knowledge Supreme, without which the 
journey of the traveler can never be 
completed. 



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FOURTH LESSON 

IN approaching the sublime Master's De- 
gree, where we encounter the important 
allegorical tragedy, it must be under- 
stood at the beginning that this is a legend 
bearing a two-fold meaning. 

The student will here recognize in Hiram, 
or the Persian Khurom, the Osiris of Egypt, 
Mithras of the Persians, Bacchus of the 
Greeks, and the Christ of Hebrew mythol- 
ogy. Analyzing these names, you will dis- 
cover the two-fold meaning of Fire and 
Light. 

The ancient World idea, which refers to 
that mighty Royal Secret mentioned upon 
page 101 of that monumental Work, *' Mor- 
als and Dogma," is thus formulated by 
Occult Scientists, Free Masons and Catho- 
lics, i-N-K-i is the word which indicates the 
unity of your origin. Igne Natura Renov- 
atiir Integra, and lesus Nazarenus Rex 
ludaeorum are the two opposite poles of the 
same doctrine. Yod, He, Vau, He, is the 
word of the Kabalists, pointing to their 
unity of origin. But Free Masonry and the 
Western religions have lost the Synthetic 
Law, and with it the knowledge of those 

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Keys wMch can open the tomb of Hiram, 
the human body. 

This third degree of the Blue Lodge was 
dismemiered of its most important instruc- 
tions about 1750. However, the symbology 
leaves a clue to that which was taken away. 

After a few minor preliminaries of some 
significance, the candidate is admitted on the 
pass word. Tubal Cain, spoken at low ireath, 
and the two points of the Compass pressing 
the naked breast. Tubal Cain is a most im- 
portant and sacred word of extended sym- 
iology, and the two sharp points of the 
Compass may remind the candidate that, 
over the complete journey of life, we are 
ever pressed by obstacles, wounded by sor- 
rows, and tortured by experiences, under a 
dominating environment of Law^ merciless 
and compassionless ; becoming a burden of 
responsibility, unless we attain to a proper 
understanding of natural obedience and co- 
operation in expansion of consciousness, 
forced by the keen cutting lessons of tribu- 
lation. All symbols have more than one 
meaning. 

After a significant period of travel, the 
candidate is prepared for an oath, unneces- 
sary in its barbarity and which no civilized 
man would countenance if he knew to what 
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by all but moral cowards who smile at the 
misery, wretchedness, and depravity of the 
double standard of morality, spreading dis- 
ease and destruction everywhere, wrecking 
homes and all that could mean contentment 
and peace for helpless families, rendering 
sacred human life a scourge and a mockery. 

Women should investigate and realize this 
vast power of evil, supported by millions of 
men who all fear each other. The word free 
does not apply to the traveling brother. 
They are told that it is impossible to bring 
changes into Masonry, but it has seemed of 
much importance of late to consider chang- 
ing the name of the degree of the Prussian 
Knight. 

To ^* swear to not violate the wife, daugh- 
ter, mother, or sister (and in ancient Ma- 
sonry, the concubine) of a Master Mason, 
knowing them to be such/' classes all other 
women, not so fortunately related, as legiti- 
mate prey, which does not harmonize with 
the advice to the entered apprentice: learn 
to subdue your passions, etc. ; and there are 
side remarks that some of the brethren do 
not always consider themselves restricted 
even by this monstrous obligation of the 
most sacred degree of the Blue Lodge. Thus 
we have our Planet cursed with the traffic 
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realizing forty-seven thousand pounds in 
one year from this infamous commerce. 
Secret fraternities and church hierarchies 
are ofttimes more powerful than civil law. 

In this important degree, and all others, 
the Master presents that marvelous symbol, 
the Apron (Triangle and Cube), made of 
plain white lambskin; of any other material 
it loses its value as a symbol. 

The Senior Warden in all the degrees 
teaches the traveler how to wear it. These 
two officers represent Spirit and Soul. Spir- 
ituality, the indissoluble link ivith Deity, 
aids us to obtain the higher knowledge, and 
the soul wisdom gives us the understanding 
of how to use it. 

The part of this degree connected with the 
legend of the Tyrian artist is profoundly 
interesting and worthy of the earnest atten- 
tion in study of all thoughtful women and 
men. Instruction in Masonry is always by 
symbols, and in the ' ^ Thirty- third Degree 
Lectures Upon S,ymbolism," Albert Pike 
tells us ^Hhat in symbology, Masonry sur- 
passes all other mystic fraternities. ' ' 

The lectures of the Order are but hints 
toward their interpretation, and each stu- 
dent must interpret and develop the symbols 
for himself. However, the great Book of 
Nature has its pages open before us, therein 

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to find the laws, commandments, and keys to 
the Holy Mysteries. Nature is our greatest 
teacher, for it is the revelation of that ma- 
jestic power called God. 

Whatever is brought before the aspirant, 
in the work of the degrees, has a significant 
meaning, but the wonderful problems of 
Truth contained in this Third Degree can- 
not even be estimated in a brief composition. 
However, its whole scope is to teach the 
resurrection from the dead, as the last de- 
gree taught a belief in a future life. But no 
more does it now teach that to the wise the 
Way of Life is from aiove, that they may 
depart from the Hell beneath. This has been 
lost. 

This degree also points out the cause of 
failure in life, by the fable of Hiram, and 
proves that there can be no resurrection 
from failure, only by the androgynous grip 
of the perfect Ten — the power that raised 
Hiram — duality of Law, not five points of 
fellowship, as represented. 

There are three gates in Masonic symbol- 
ogy: the south gate, representing the point 
of greatest spiritual instability; the west, 
the point of greatest alienation from the 
universal Grod power, and the east, the quar- 
ter where the spiritual life of mankind is 
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course is ^'frorn west to east in search of 
Light." 

The three important officers represent 
spirit, soul and body, and are stationed as 
follows : Junior Warden at the south. Sen- 
ior Warden at the west, and the Worshipful 
Master at the eastern gate. They assume 
the names of the three assassins in the enact- 
ing the tragedy : Jubela^, south » Jubelte or o, 
west, and Jubelum^ east. These supposed 
ruffians represent falsehood, superstition, 
and ignorance; the last letter of their respec- 
tive names disclosing the sacred monosyl- 
lable A-TJ-M. A signifies Agni, or Fire ; U 
is Ushas, or Dawn ; and M is Mitra, the Sun, 
or the full glory of the recreated state. A is 
masucline, TJ is feminine, and M, androg- 
ynous. 

Jubel, or Guibel, is a Hebrew word mean- 
ing outflowing or emanating from the Deity ; 
also limited. Thus, the widow's son, or 
fallen conscious life to be assassinated, is the 
God within, or that potency — that limited 
divine principle which must, by growth in 
expansion of mind and soul consciousness to 
perfect understanding, restore us again to 
Unity, or the Source of our Being. 

The candidate meets Jubela at the south 
gate, and is struck a blow across the throat 
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gauge. Numerically, two signifies the mul- 
titude, and four this natural plane of life. 
Thus we read, the multitudes on this plane 
of existence are severely injured by false 
speech in regard to the A, or Fire under- 
standing. This refers to the Creative Fire. 
False religions are the responsible factors. 

The aspirant now moves on to the western 
gate and is there accosted (as at the south 
gate) by Jubelt^^ demanding of him some- 
thing he does not possess ; whereupon he is 
struck a severe blow across the chest, or seat 
of emotion, with a square, which represents 
dual force in matter. The journey of soul 
evolution encounters many sorrows, few 
joys. The assassin here represents the let- 
ter Uy the feminine, soul element, drugged 
into bigotry and imbecility by Orthodox su- 
perstition ; principally since the time of the 
criminal Constantine, when the emotions of 
humanity have been so played upon and 
swayed by allegory and fable, to emphasize 
the harping of ^'The Lord loveth a cheerful 
giver." Verily, the Church loveth not a 
thinker! 

The traveler seeks the eastern gate, and 
after a demand with which he was unable to 
comply, he is seized, roughly handled, and 
struck a violent blow on the forehead, or 
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force) by the tuffian JMhulum, which is 
fatal, felling him to the floor. This assassin 
is ignorance. Thus, the force of ignorance 
of that important law, represented by the 
androgynous letter M, is death, or uncon- 
scious life. 

The two pillars are required to sustain the 
temple here, and equally are they required 
to complete the march triumphant^ into 
Light. Only by knowledge of Law^ and the 
guidance of Wisdom, can the aspiring can- 
didate ever realize the wages of a Master. 

The assassins now carry the candidate out 
at the eastern gate, or to the universal cre- 
ative power^ called God. He is cast aside 
and covered with rubbish, — which implies 
that he has gone out of this life in such 
dense ignorance that he will be soon cast ofE 
by the rhythmic law of the ever-moving 
Life-Wave (i. e.y rubbish, that which is cast 
off) ; and, accordingly, at the darkness of 
low twelve, the benighted state in which he 
passed away, the assassins return him to the 
westerly gate, where, Ancient Masonry tells 
us, they placed him in a tomb six feet per- 
pendicular. 

In other words, he returned to a human 
hody, to again be one of the multitude in 
incarnation, repeating the journey of life, 
lashed to the ivheel of the Law. A knowl- 

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edge of the REAL must be gained on this 
plane of existence^ and so long as we slumber 
in ignorance^ must we live again and again 
in a repeated experience of mistakes, de- 
spair, misery, and sorrow; ever struggling, 
long, and hoping, but unredeemed. 

This boundless field of symbolism, illus- 
trating the SouPs journey through matter 
to immortality, where it goes no more out 
from the Heaven World, has no superior 
representation of Truth and Law, in all the 
occult fraternities of the world; and it for- 
cibly impresses the fact that each individual 
soul, launched upon the turbulent sea of 
material existence, is definitely responsible 
for its otvn search and attainment of Light, 
It is but a moral coward that seeks for a 
world redeemer upon whom to cast his sins 
and burdens. Humanity can only be its own 
redeemer, seeking constantly for more Light 
and better conditions than those of the past, 
where the multitudes have been perpetually 
swayed into incompetency by blind emotion- 
alism, sentimentality, effeminate adoration, 
selfishness, and an animal greed and avarice, 
soulless and merciless. But there is no aid 
for humanity, only by mankind en masse 
united in bonds of sympathy and love, — the 
foundation of Brotherhood. 

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Master Mason's degree, consequently they 
fail to obtain the pass word that was lost by 
the tragic death of the Tyrian artist. Can- 
didates are told that the Lost Word could 
only be given in Jerusalem (place of peace), 
in the presence of the three Grand Masters. 
Referring back to the Ancient Mysteries, we 
read that the three Grand Masters, when 
they met, brought with them each a small 
gauge or stick, one three inches long, the 
others, respectively, four and ^yq inches in 
length. These they placed together in such 
a way as to form the Forty-seventh problem. 
Thus, we learn the Lost Word, and one of 
the Grand Masters was necessarily a woman, 
for only Isis and Osiris can form the hypoth- 
enuse, or House of Horus; and one of the 
Grand Masters has been assassinated, — the 
Master Builder. The Word is lost, and only 
a faint resemblance of the letter ^^G" is 
found upon the left breast, over the heart. 
Read, and reflect! Oh, Lord! my God, is 
there no help for the widow's son? Echo 
answers, none, — not any. 

These are the Ten Commandments of 
Masonry : 
1. God is the Eternal, Omnipotent, Immu- 
table WISDOM and Supreme INTEL- 
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Thou shalt adore, revere, and love Him! 
Thou shalt honor Him by practicing the 
virtues ! 

2. Thy religion shall be, to do good because 
it is a pleasure to thee, and not merely 
because it is a duty. That thou mayest 
become the friend of the wise man, thou 
shall obey his precepts ! Thy soul is im- 
mortal! Thou shalt do nothing to de- 
grade it ! 

3. Thou shalt unceasingly war against 
vice ! Thou shalt not do unto others that 
which thou wouldst not wish them to do 
unto thee ! Thou shalt be submissive to 
thy fortunes, and keep burning the light 
of wisdom ! 

4. Thou shalt honor thy parents! Thou 
shalt pay respect and homage to the 

aged. Thou shalt instruct the young! 
Thou shalt protect and defend infancy 
and innocence ! 

5. Thou shalt cherish thy wife and thy chil- 
dren ! Thou shalt love thy country, and 
obey its laws ! 

6. Thy friend shall be to thee a second self ! 
Misfortune shall not estrange thee from 
him! Thou shalt do for his memory 
whatever thou wouldst do for him, if he 
were living ! 

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7. Thou shalt avoid and flee from insincere 
friendships! Thou shalt in everything 
refrain from excess ! Thou shalt fear to 
be the cause of a stain on thy memory ! 

8. Thou shalt allow no passion to become 
thy master! Thou shalt make the pas- 
sions of others profitable lessons to thy- 
self. Thou shalt be indulgent to error! 

9. Thou shalt hear much : Thou shalt speak 
little : Thou shalt act well ! Thou shalt 
forget injuries ! Thou shalt render good 
for evil! Thou shalt not misuse either 
thy strength or thy superiority ! 

10. Thou shalt study to know men; that 
thereby thou mayest learn to know thy- 
self ! Thou shalt ever seek after virtue ! 
Thou shalt be just! Thou shalt avoid 
idleness ! 
But the great commandment of Masonry 
is this: '^A new commandment give I unto 
you : that ye love one another! He that saith 
he is in the light, and hateth his brother, re- 
maineth still in the darkness." 

We find in these Ten Precepts selfishness 
and assumed superiority. But they are an 
improvement on the Third Degree oath. 



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IN THE Scottish Rite, tlie Royal Arch is 
the thirteenth degree, which is the num- 
ber of completion. Twelve apostles and 
one Christ. Also one and three equal four, 
the ancient number of this degree, being 
properly the fourth and last of Masonry. 
The Scottish Rite came originally from 
Paris, with twenty-five degrees. Eight more 
were added later, in Charleston, South Caro- 
lina, the home of the Masonic See or Pope. 
It is indescribably august and sublime, the 
summit and perfection of the Ancient Order. 
It impresses the belief in a Supreme Deity, 
and reminds us to be reverential, conmaand- 
ing a vista beyond the tomb. 

The preliminary sjnmbol is the six-pointed 
star, in which are ttvo clasped hands (one 
feminine). The names of the principal offi- 
cers are changed to High Priest, King, and 
Scribe. The robe of the High Priest in the 
east is blue, signifying Law. The robe of 
the King at the west is purple, a manifesta- 
tion of obedience under the Law; and the 
Scribe at the south, in deep scarlet, indicates 
the suffering from chaotic instability, — the 
opposite pole of equilibrium. As in the pre- 

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ceding degrees, all the work and symbology 
of this most instructive degree is vastly im- 
portant. The durning hush of Moses, the 
withdrawing of the Veils, and the effulgent 
glory of the magnificent arch, adorned in 
colors of brilliant hue behind the last Veil, 
cannot be described in words. It is a small 
representation of nature's beautiful rain- 
bow, — the most perfect arch, resting on 
earth and rising to the heavens. Here again 
is to be found a law of correspondence, in 
that all the redeemed are to find in Eternity 
their place in that perfect Arch for the sup- 
port of life, which, though based on earth, 
yet rises to the heaven world; and in this 
ultimate state each soul will give its own 
clear and perfect analysis of the White 
Light of the God power that falls upon it. 

This Arch is significantly placed over the 
Temple, with the Keystone missing. The 
candidate is placed in the opening where the 
Keystone belongs, his feet resting on the 
roof of the Temple beneath, the position of 
his arms forming a horseshoe arch. The 
descending within the Temple, and its mys- 
terious lighting^ is so plain in symbology 
that it needs no explanation. 

The withdrawing of the First Veil reveals 
all the implements of the First Degree, most 
brilliantly illuminated, with Entered Ap- 

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prentices at their labors, etc., and a voice 
says : **Son of man, mark well the entering 
in of the gate!" This is equivalent to say- 
ing, appreciate your opportunity and pre- 
serve in memory your past experiences. For 
to pass beyond the portal of death without 
knowledge and memory is an embryonic life, 
in a state of ieing only, similar to life in 
utero. 

The raising of the Second Veil discloses 
all the paraphernalia pertaining to the sec- 
ond and third degrees, under an illumina- 
tion of most brilliant and variegated color- 
ing ; and through a long perspective view of 
the Middle Chamber is seen the Holy of 
Holies, and Hiram lying prostrate on the 
floor, surrounded by weeping brehren. By 
his side is a coffin on which are the initial 
letters, H. T. W. S. S. T. K. S. Eight let- 
ters. Study them from the Hebrew symbol- 
ogy. 

After lifting the veils of matter, in pass- 
ing over to other planes of consciousness, 
the first visions of the new experience are 
the reflections upon the various lessons of 
the past; this symbology is plain. All vibra- 
tion is intensified, and the play of light in 
various colors is radiant and dazzling, and 
by imitating the virtues of Hiram we are 
able to soar to kindred spirits like *^He that 

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was slain": becoming, by virtue and integ- 
rity, a force in spiritual progress in that 
great Living Temple beyond the veils of 
obscurity. 

Again, we see behind the last Veil a human 
being suspended in the opening of the Arch 
previously occupied by the candidate, and 
surrounded by brilliances too vivid for mor- 
tal eye to dwell upon. By mechanical art, 
the man is seen to gradually ascend, and a 
Keystone, fitting firmly in his place, has 
inscribed upon it the same letters previously 
mentioned, arranged in circular form, with 
the letter ^'H'' at the top of the circle. Both 
are important symbols. This reads, ** Hiram 
Tyre, Widow's Son Soars to King Solo- 
mon." This is a progressive soaring; but 
observe that only man ascends; woman is 
supposed to remain in her allotted station 
and follow the dictates of her self-styled 
superiors, under which she principally de- 
scends, mentally and morally; not by the 
Divine Law, but by the pressure of impact 
and injustice in a world ruled by man 
egoism. 

The Lost Word is said to be restored in 
this degree and, by careful investigation, a 
suggestion of it may be discovered. The 
story of Adam and Eve is quite as disrepu- 
table as the Bible fable of those same mythr 

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ical characters. Man is responsible for the 
world conditions, not Eve. 

The Hebrew characters on the Scroll read, 
**Lord everlasting, everlasting Lord." The 
same, forward or reversed; and this Scroll 
was always intrusted to Hiram Abiff, who 
carefully concealed it. The manner of its 
discovery and the loss of the trowel, a trian- 
gular instrument, is important symbology. 

A diligent and faithful study of the sym- 
bolism of the necessary degrees of Masonry 
will develop force in thought and intuition, 
and reveal more Truth than Las ever been 
given from all the pulpits of the world since 
the time of the reign of the atrocious crim- 
inal, Constantine, who gave the world that 
misleading compilation called Bible; and 
feeble-minded, unthinking women who sup- 
port the pulpit, and are devoted to the be- 
nighting influence of Orthodoxy and its 
hierarchies should know that a majority of 
the Anglo-Saxon clergy are Masons, having 
no belief themselves in what they dole out 
from the pulpit at so much per. Some are 
well informed and some are not, but all are 
egotistic, bigoted and self-important, and 
their propensity for meddling is unparal- 
leled. They are non-producing parasites, 
and the world would profit by relegating 
them to some useful field of occupation, giv- 

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ing Truth a better opportunity to permeate 
the human mind. In Europe we meet many 
of them, drunken, overbearing, and licen- 
tious, and everywhere they are a most formi- 
dable foe to the emancipation of women. 
For woman enlightened will not contribute 
to the support of Churchism. 

At one time the Masons and Jesuits were 
united^ and in the time of Pope Alexander 
the Sixth, Freemasonry was under the direct 
favor and patronage of the Roman Church. 
It might be instructive to women to know 
something of the history of this Pope, one of 
the most infamous and vicious characters 
that ever ruled Rome. His most conspicu- 
ous qualities were cunning and insidious 
cruelty, murder and poisoning. As a liber- 
tine he was unsurpassed. His assumed name 
was '^Borgia," and he was the father of 
Caesar and Lucretia Borgia^ progeny 
equally criminal with himself, and under his 
direction the earnest and eloquent Floren- 
tine Monk '' Savonarola" was burned at the 
stake. By such was Christianity estab- 
lished, and its complete history is one long 
trail of war, cruelty, treachery, crime, and 
misery ; with blood-stained hands deep scar- 
let, crosses are planted, reared on blood- 
soaked soil where other helpless human vic- 
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martyrdom, all in the name of a loving Ee- 
deemer. And greed and gain have more 
influence than the silent partner called God. 
You are admitted into the Middle Chamber, 
brother, for the sake of the letter ''G'^! 

And parents must be worthy of the respect 
of their offspring to command it, A child 
forced into a most undesirable existence on 
this material plane by common selfish desire 
only, unaccompanied by thought, unwel- 
comed and uncared for, considered indiffer- 
ently if at all, owes its parents nothing — 
neither respect nor reverence. Wiseacres 
wonder why children in such homes where 
abuse and hatred increases daily run away 
and fill our afflicted country with base crimi- 
nals, mental defectives, etc. False doctrines 
have produced this atrocious environment 
for struggling humanity, with death and 
Hell as a goal, and only truth can free us 
from such burdens of bondage. The 
Biblical quotation of honor thy Father and 
Mother, etc., refers to the greaJt Divine Uni- 
versal Father-Mother principle, not to the 
selfish, ignorant multitude of creators on 
this material plane, many of them inferior 
to the lower animal kingdom. Parents must 
make themselves worthy of honor to receive 
it. ^'Mark well the entering in of the Mid- 
dle Chamber for the sake of the Letter 'G'." 

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**I looked on the waiting women 

Through the mist of a thousand years ; 
Some of their eyes w^ere smiling, 

But most were suffused with tears. 
*^Yet they sang as a choir in training; 

And the song of the waiting throng 
Was the old, old cry to heaven : 

How long, O Lord, how long?" 
In a letter dated in Rome, September 16th, 
1502, by the ruling Alexander, and also in 
one dated January, 1517, by Pope Leo the 
Tenth, both granted *^ bulls" to the traveling 
Masons, investing them with certain privi- 
leges and immunities. But not all the Jes- 
uits and the Jesuitic principles of the pres- 
ent time are found connected with the 
Church. ^^The Pot calls the Kettle black." 
All mystic fraternities are controlled by men 
standing guard over usurped knowledge 
(stolen goods) to which woman is denied 
access, and the motive of thus standarding 
guard should concern woman. But she can 
develop strength of character and cease sup- 
porting man-made Bibles and religions, 
ridiculous and ignorant in conception. She 
can study the Book of Nature in all its 
divine revelations, and she can understand 
that the symbology of the Masonic apron 
and the swastika will give her a higher and 
more noble message of Truth than all the 

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pulpit orators of two thousand centuries. 
Woman contributes a salary for her own 
enslavement and has seriously retarded her 
own evolution by her benighting credulity, 
ever accepting what has been told her by 
man as ultimate. It would add much to her 
education to investigate for herself^ and seek 
to know the character of some of the much- 
admired and appreciated so-called men of 
God (i. e,, some of the few) , as Constantine, 
Henry the Eighth, John Wesley, John Cal- 
vin, and others, whom she has covered with 
glory and admiration, as founders of reli- 
gious cults, but whom are now somewhat 
displaced by Columbus Knights and Shriner 
Nobles of Islam, — a barbarous and polyga- 
mous cult. 

John Calvin, the renegade Roman Cath- 
olic, and his fanatical religion, murdered the 
great philosopher Severitus, and burned his 
valuable writings. One of his books that 
escaped the flames can be seen in the ^'Bib- 
liotheque Nationale" in Paris, one page of 
which contains more of Truth and value to 
the Races of Mankind than all of the innu- 
merable fallacies of the fanatical John Cal- 
vin ; but woman slumbers on in egoistic pride 
of Christian fortitude, and is pufed up over 
patient resignation, opposing any energetic 
thinking for herself. 

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Our School of Esoteric Masonry for 
Women is no place for the religious fanatic 
or the idle, heartless, conventional, selfish 
woman of gossip, criticism, fashion, and 
.folly, who can cheerfully prostitute her 
highest principles for luxurious alimony; 
but we seek and depend upon the woman 
who understands the Law of Unity, and has 
advanced beyond the decadent influences of 
snobbery, conventionalism, and weak ideas 
of so-called class distinction; in other words, 
the progressive twentieth century woman of 
brain and honor, just and true, to seek that 
knowledge that will make her free, and then 
to permanently sustain that glorious name 
of Liberty, in giving her moral strength and 
support to a perpetual Center of Learning 
for woman, that she may save her last and 
iest hope of earth, an enlightened mind. 
Study the Book of Nature for yourself, sis- 
ter, it bears the stamp of Deity, and continue 
your otvn journey in search of Light, for 
only by your own growth can you under- 
stand. 

** Could I but tell thee, wouldst thou know 
That God is just and good and right ; 

Did God Himself but tell thee so 

Thoii wouldst not know. 

Thyself must grow up out of darkness 
into Light." 

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DEGREES 

THE first or Entered Apprentice degree 
shows you man as nature made him, 
with no other resources than his phys- 
ical strength. But an inner meaning shows 
you in the candidate, who is neither naked 
nor clad, barefoot nor shod, blindfolded and 
in bondage, penniless and destitute, — the 
great dumb and sleeping masses of human- 
ity, blinded by superstition, defenseless 
through ignorance, chained in bondage to 
the mill-stones, the soul in slavery to hier- 
archies that exterminate heretics in the 
name of a Grod of mercy and a loving Re- 
deemer. Poor and humiliated, dumb and 
blind, yet instinctively longing for light, the 
Apprentice knocks timidly at the door of 
Masonry, is received, sworn to secrecy, and 
made to stand upright in the northeast cor- 
ner of the Lodge, as a man. It is his first 
lesson; knowledge changes him into a man. 
The Pellow Craft is taught the necessity 
of knowledge, which alone can constitute 
man king over creation, and master over 
himself. And thus we learn that Masonry is 
the pure and primitive religion. 

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The Third degree, in its ceremony and in 
the very name of '^Khurum,'' shadowed 
forth the great doctrine of another life, and 
the immortality of the soul. And also we 
see the symbol of the people raised from the 
death of vassalage and ignorance to the life 
of Freedom and Intelligence. In the char- 
acter of Hiram living, they are taught the 
dignity of labor : work is not ignoble. And 
in the raising of Hiram they see the human 
race rising trimphant from the sordid earth 
on which it groveled now standing redeemed. 

In the Fourth degree commenced the as- 
cent toward the Heights on which Truth in 
morals and philosophy sits enthroned. Here 
the duties of a Mason are taught: to serve 
your fellows, your country and mankind. 
Liberty must come by degrees ; sudden free- 
dom is intoxicating to those who have been 
long degraded and oppressed. There is thus 
great danger of falling, and Masonic Light 
must come by slow and imperceptible de- 
grees ; a sudden flash would blind, and might 
destroy. 

In the Fifth degree you are reminded to 
do right because it is right, and you learn 
that no good man will make himself rich by 
making someone else poor, and that you 
should return an equivalent for all received, 
taking no wages not honorably due; for 

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without these virtues liberty is naughty and 
independence only a name. 

The Sixth degree says it is the duty of 
every true Mason to heal dissensions and 
differences, restoring peace and harmony 
among men. In the Seventh degree there is 
a special charge to he just, without which no 
man is fit to be free ; and prevent the com- 
mission of wrong, ever punishing the wrong- 
doers. The Eighth degree teaches the rights 
of the laboring classes and the Masons' duty 
toward them, and that without human broth- 
erhood there can be no genuine government 
of nations, except by force and the sword. 

If the legends of the Ninth and Tenth de- 
grees were not symbolic and allegorical, 
they would be unfit to be considered a part 
of Masonry. The dagger and the bloody 
head, slashed from the body of a sleeping 
man in a spirit of barbarous vengeance, is 
not the spirit of Masonic teaching. But 
learn that this sleeping man symbolizes 
rational liberty, physical, intellectual and 
spiritual, and his assassin symbolizes the 
ignorance of the people, ever misled and 
ready to cry aloud for the crucifixion of 
their wisest and best interests; then you 
learn that Freedom must rise, and gross 
ignorance of Truth and Eight must be exter- 
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with hy beheading; and here we pause in 
contemplation of the gross ignorance of 
Truth among the masses of mankind, espe- 
cially among women, from their willingness 
to accept false teaching instead of searching 
for Light and Truth in nature and her latvs. 
It would require beheading to dislodge them 
from their Mind enslavement, and convince 
them that secret fraternities control the only 
religions worth while, and the knowledge of 
natural law, which is Truth. 

In the Twelfth degree we are taught that 
the laborer has passed beyond the tools; 
square, level, plumi, and trowel (important 
symbols) ; both points of the compass being 
above the square means that there is an ad- 
vance to the spiritual problems, an ap- 
proaching the threshold of the Holy of 
Holies, and a beginning to know what Ma- 
sonry really is. 

In the Thirteenth degree you learned that 
the two pole stars of the Order were honor 
and duty. You saw the true word of the 
Master Mason, and began to realize its value, 
and you thought soon to put out your hand 
and draw aside all impediments between 
your eyes and the true solution of the great 
enigmas of God and nature, but you long 
since learned that the real heights were still 
very far above you. 

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In the Fourteenth degree you were made 
to recognize the mission of Masonry as a 
teacher, the true nature of the Deity, and 
the nature and immortality of the human 
soul. These essential truths were not ex- 
plained to you in accordance with the dog- 
mas of narrow sectarianism, claiming to he 
alone in possession of all the Truth, but in 
such terms that all real intelligent men of 
every creed may assent to the splendid ideas 
embodied. In this degree you saw fore- 
shadowed the future destiny of Masonry, 
involving the destiny of the human race; 
and this perfect degree symbolizes the peo- 
ple redeemed, enlightened, free, in its obedi- 
ence to Law, all equal in rights under the 
Law, all constituting one great brotherhood, 
with common interests and common sym- 
pathies. 

In the Fifteenth degree you were re- 
minded that apathy was an enemy to human 
progress, and Masons were guilty of same. 
But you were told to look forward with 
Faith and Hope to the New Day about to 
dawn for mankind, when all the dead, dry 
husks of forms and ceremonies, with the 
affectation of conventianality and empty 
traditions, will fade away and rot, and sim- 
ple truth will be the test of all institutions, 
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follow hypocrisy and false teaching to anni- 
hilation. The price of liberty is not only 
eternal, but eternal loyalty and eternal per- 
severance must be the standard, amid what- 
ever discouragements. 

In the Sixteenth degree you were impres- 
sively taught how difficult it is to restore a 
Temple of Liberty when once it has been 
overthrown; and it can only be re-estab- 
lished by the wisdom of Rulers, and the 
strength and harmony of the people ; and the 
true Mason ever finds himself marching 
straight onward, following the path indi- 
cated by Truth. Death alone can make him 
pause. 

In the Seventeenth degree you saw in the 
remote past the **Essenes," whose doctrines 
were preached by John the Baptist in the 
wilderness (i. e,, among the ignorant multi- 
tude), the Souls weary of unprofitable spec- 
ulation, a barren and diseased logic, empty 
and soulless in form, searching for the True 
light that leads to peace and understanding. 

In the Eighteenth degree it was attempted 
to show the way by which you might arrive 
at a solution of the vast enigma of the uni- 
verse, and reconcile the existence of sin and 
wrong, pain and suffering, the wretchedness 
of the good, and the prosperous fortunes of 
the wicked, with the theory of the un- 

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bounded beneficence of God. Here you rec- 
ognize in the new Law of Love the simple 
and sublime expression of the Divine Na- 
ture. Love, and not intolerance, can make 
the whole human family a Unit. The can- 
didate wakens as from a dream and looks 
back with amazement on the errors and prej- 
udices that have so long blinded and bewil- 
dered him. It is not what we believe, hut 
what we 'become, that is important in our 
evolution; but everyone must judge for 
themselves, and grow their otvn way, accept- 
ing falsehood and error, if such means truth 
to their mind. 

In the Nineteenth degree you were told 
that our small human intellect cannot meas- 
ure the great designs of God, and you were 
told that the Race of humanity must pa- 
tiently wait for the coming eternal reign of 
good, when the mighty power of Truth, 
Honor, and Justice shall forever destroy the 
triple-headed monster of falsehood, base- 
ness, and intolerance. 

In the Twentieth degree you were taught 
how to govern and preside over your breth- 
ren when selected to do so, by influence and 
reason, instead of by the Pontificial power 
of terror and superstition. In the Twenty- 
first degree you were reminded by ceremony 
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progress are free and independent Courts of 
Justice, dependent on no caprice of the pop- 
ulace, but only upon the Law and Constitu- 
tion. In the Twenty-second degree you were 
required to recognize the dignity of labor, 
for work is a privilege, a blessing, and an 
honor. 

In the Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth, and 
Twenty-fifth degrees you learned all that is 
known of the ancient mysteries, and the 
origin and esoteric meaning of the Master's 
degree. The ancient doctrines in regard to 
the origin, nature, and destiny of the human 
soul were brought to your attention. You 
were taught the meaning of many symbols, 
and that great mysteries are hidden in every 
blade of grass, and in every needle that 
points to the north. By mystic utterances, 
you were put in possession of the Keys by 
which the true Initiate unlocks the secrets 
of the universe: their meaning to you de- 
pends upon your own intellect; for like sym- 
bols, they conceal the Truth, of which every 
Initiate must he a new discoverer. 

You were taught the folly of intolerance 
and persecution, and the necessity of intel- 
lectual independence. 

In the Twenty-sixth degree you saw shad- 
owed forth the early Christian Mysteries, 
and learned the doctrine of the Gnostics, and 

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the Kabbala, in regard to the Deity and His 
emanations, and the truth of the Trinity; 
and you heard the calm voice of Masonry 
uttering the simple and sublime truths, — 
that God is Unity, and the Universe is pre- 
served by the Law of Harmony. 

In the Twenty-seventh degree you became 
the soldier of Truth and Loyalty ; and in the 
Twenty-eighth degree you received the final 
instructions which advanced you nearer to- 
ward the Light. Whether this instruction is 
to be of value to you depends upon yourself. 
The value of every Truth depending upon 
its being rightly understood. 

You can now know the concealed truth in 
the old creeds. There never could have been 
any actual efficacy in the burning of meat or 
incense upon an Altar, nor in circumcision; 
nor was there ever any truth in the declara- 
tion, *'I am a jealous God, visiting the iniq- 
uity of the fathers upon the children unto 
the third and fourth generations of them 
that hate me." Various sects all on the way 
with God their silent partner from Holy 
EoUers up through the category to Pope 
Eidiculous Ignorance and Superstition. 

Past creeds are unfit for an advanced 
world, and the error in all creeds is that they 
define the Deity by expressing everything 
that He is not. God is Supreme Intellect, 

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and His work is the Book of Nature; we 
need no other Bible, The science, religion, 
and philosophy of Masonry could do away 
with all errors that infest the world, God is 
Love: and by this understanding only can 
the Knights Kadosh become the true sol- 
diery of the Holy House of the Temple, and 
Masonry be a benefactor of mankind. No 
irreligious libertine should ever be permit- 
ted to become a Mason; and let us add also, 
no religious libertine should ever disgrace 
those lofty Truths, Masonry is hostile only 
to superstition and spiritual despotism. 
Freedom of thought and conscience is the 
right of mankind. 

The remaining degrees refer to the mighty 
Law of Equilibrium in all nature, and each 
and every Masonic savant knows that until 
this Law is respected and established, the 
present chaotic conditions of dark igno- 
rance, injustice, cruelty, and crime will 
reign supreme. Apathy and indifference 
govern our selfish Race today, and never in 
any age of the world has brutal, lustful 
greed of gain, caused the sacrifice of so 
many victims, and established such per- 
petual reign of misery, or made so many 
bitter and dangerous enemies, as the present 
ruling power of selfishness ; and this general 
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governments all over our land, and igno- 
rance, profound as night, arrogant and self- 
conceited, has for centuries filled the pulpits, 
interpreting and mediating between a man- 
made God of anger, hatred, cruelty, and per- 
secution and a benighted and superstitious 
Eace of suffering, struggling humanity, 
until today we clamor to know the way out ; 
and woman, ever sneered at in contempt for 
her forced ignorance, which makes her a 
stupid and cheap commodity, supports her 
own iondage in mental serfdom. 

Truth is never popular, the masses feed 
and fatten on falsity, and the vagaries of 
ignorance and cunning are readily accepted 
by multitudes, — as inspiration!! Women 
weep and rejoice over the Holy (?) men who 
wrote their misleading Bible, holding them 
in memory as divinely inspired; when truth 
reveals that no greater scoundrels ever af- 
flicted the earth than the reprobates, Con- 
stantine and his henchmen, the cunning 
priests Athanasius and Seinesius, charac- 
ters of depravity, devoid of all honor or 
sense of justice. That Book, ever followed 
by a trail of human blood, was written to 
conceal the Truth, and to blind and mislead 
the credulous Race, who are symbolized by 
the halting, helpless, blind, and ignorant 
Entered Apprentice in Masonry. 

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A new revelation, administered by charla- 
tans, creates a New Religion, founds a State, 
and establishes the curse of polygamy, one 
of the darkest pages of our National history, 
where women in submission, supported and 
sanctioned their own death and destruction. 
Brigham Young (with his recording angels) 
was a Mason, retained in good standing, and 
the Church of his power, with its influential 
Mormon hierarchy, was founded upon the 
system of Masonry, and many of its symbols 
adorn the Temple walls. But the man-made 
Bible revels in the principles of polygamy, 
fostered by a Grovernment that finally re- 
fused to sustain Brigham Young's creed. 
Yet all men worthy of the name know that 
the Divine Law governing peace and prog- 
ress is equilibrium in union and reciprocity ; 
but the putrid progeny of vanity, pomposity 
and selfishness, which is apathy and indif- 
ference, will reign King in all their ghastly, 
grinning hideousness just as long as woman 
chooses to remain ignorant of Truth, — con- 
tributing to the support of that which can 
but end in disaster and destruction, taking 
from our children and our children's off- 
spring all that makes life worth the living. 

Free school education fits no Race to un- 
derstand Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity ; 
such is not worthy to he termed knowledge 

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unless accompanied with other instruction. 
Cheap knowledge for the masses and a smat- 
tering of real information^ without under- 
standing ^ for the few, fits no people for free- 
dom. Thus, all so-called civilizations, built 
upon the toiling bodies of the masses, are 
but temporary structures; they slowly rise, 
totter, and fall back upon the heads of the 
populace, — a mighty ruin, bathed in the 
heart-blood of its victims. 

The revelation of Divine Truth to Nations 
and Races, as well as to individuals, is in 
proportion to their enlightenment. The 
naked and unfortified eye is only dazzled by 
the noon-day sun. But the doctrines and 
truths usurped and so long concealed by 
selfish and self-important men will ulti- 
mately rule the Intellectual World, It may 
be far in the future, but in time it must 
come, and then ignorance can no longer de- 
stroy her victims and drench the world in 
the red fluid of human life, impoverishing 
Nations, creating Race hatred, and paralyz- 
ing the intellectual energies of the world. 
For a sense of unfair treatment rois one's 
life of all its joy, and what is superficially 
called idleness is oftentimes only the paraly- 
sis of hope deferred, for life is, at best, a 
gradual disenchantment under a man-ruled 
world of selfishness and injustice, and as we 

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advance, illusion after illusion fades away, 
and one by one the threads of faith snap 
asunder, under the continued strain of les- 
sons by rude experience, until a God of Love 
seems impossible^ and religion a curse, a de- 
lusion and a mockery. 

Truth alone can establish a belief, scien- 
tific and not at variance with common sense, 
giving humanity an anchor; otherwise they 
must float over the rapids of diseased mor- 
als. Masons are only superior to other men 
in bigotry ; the doctrines of their cult are on 
the lips of many, but in the hearts of few. 
It should be taught and practiced^ and com- 
mended to humanity for the knowledge of 
the Divine Law of Equilibrium in establish- 
ment. ^'Forever and forever, whatsoever a 
man soweth, that also shall he reap." But 
the pity of it all is that others must be de- 
stroyed and tortured in the reaping process, 
which has just begun. 



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NOTES ON THE THIRTY-THIRD 
DEGREE, BY A THIRTY- 
THIRD THINKER 

TO ASK where Masonry began would 
be to ask where the world began, for 
the Life of the world is founded upon 
its Truths ; it holds the esoteric meaning of 
all things, all religions, all Bibles, all Sacred 
writings: and the knowledge of all great 
men is contained in Masonry. It was once 
the associate body of the Roman Church 
hierarchies, and all the great stone Bibles, 
the Pyramid, the Sphinx, the Temple of Sol- 
omon, and back through all the ages of 
nature is the open hook. Mythology of all 
ages has but covered the inner meaning. 
The invitation of *^Seek and ye shall find" 
has always been the pass word to the earnest 
soul who is willing to take the Unit as his 
starting point, proceeding through the reg- 
ular steps of initiation, 3-5-7-9, completing 
the Cycle and finding it all in the Unit. 

In the world's progress, Masonry can be 
traced back to the Toltec Civilization, when 
the Island of Atlantis, with her city of the 
Golden Gate as the world's center, held her 
Lodges of Initiation. In past ages, as now, 

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the sincere person^ the conscious man, has 
always been protected. When Atlantis dis- 
appeared, those who knew had been trans- 
ferred to other Centers, where the knowl- 
edge of the Law could be preserved ; hence, 
we find great ruins scattered around the 
world, in Yucatan, Mexico, Peru, Thibet, 
China, India, Ceylon, Madagascar, Java, 
Egypt, and Greece. These points on the 
world's map at one time held the knowledge 
of the Inner Masonry of the Universe, teach- 
ing then, as now, **Man, know thyself 
through the mystery of sex," or the Creative 
power (Fire, Mist, etc.). To know thyself 
is to know the mystery of the Great Initia- 
tion, which was held during the height of 
the Egyptian Civilization, when the Initiate 
was admitted at a door under the left hand 
of the Sphinx, advancing through the under- 
ground chambers, where the degrees were 
conferred, going fortuard where he stood the 
tests, going back where he failed, disappear- 
ing when he had knowledge which he might 
use unwisely, until, when he passed and en- 
tered the Pyramid, he wore the highest 
badge of a Magi. 

The Great Pyramid symbolizes the seven 
interior senses of the perfect man. The true 
door to it is on the east side, 70 feet from its 
base, which represents the spleen, in the 

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spiritual dody. From that point a direct 
line is followed to the center of the Holy of 
Holies, that quiet spot where the Father 
dwells ; from there you descend into Hell, or 
the organs of generation; from there, 70 feet 
below the base, into the thighs, the center of 
locomotion, then back to the generative or- 
gans ; from there, up the thirty- three bones 
of the spine (i, e,, Jacob's Ladder) to the 
back brain, where the power of the fine oil is 
conveyed to the King's chamber, the Queen's 
chamber, and on to the Pineal Gland, com- 
pleting the Grand Man of the Cosmos. 

From Egypt the Initiation was trans- 
ferred to Athens, and are the mysteries re- 
ferred to by Paul. When the Eoman Church 
absorbed and suppressed the Greek Church, 
what was left of the Ancient Ritual was con- 
veyed and deposited in the vaults of the Vat- 
ican. French Masonry and that of the Scot- 
tish Eite was first put into ritual form by 
Ramsay, the tutor to the Scottish Pretender, 
while living at the Vatican, attending to the 
education of the Scottish Prince. 

The symbology of the Thirty-third degree, 
or the developed spiritual consciousness 
(i. e., the Christ within) begins in the Eigh- 
teenth, or Rose Croix degree, and is the true 
meaning of the Cross. This Cross refers to 
the spleen, or where the white corpuscles of 

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the blood cross the red corpuscles in obtain- 
ing the necessary life essence (i. e., Creative 
Power in refinement) of the Spiritual Body. 
This is sjmabolized by the ^^ crossing the Red 
Sea, in the coming out of Egypt." 

Prom the Nineteenth to the Thirtieth de- 
gree the Initiate progresses to the adjust- 
ment of his inner spiritual senses. 

The Thirty-first degree is the Hall of Jus- 
tice and Equity, where the balance is struck 
— the King and Queen's Chamber — the 
double eagle, half gold and half silver (i. e., 
sun and moon, man and woman) , then on to 
the Thirty-second degree, ^^ Master of the 
Royal Secret," where the Circle is com- 
pleted, by putting into operation the instruc- 
tion of the First degree to the Entered Ap- 
prentice, ''Learn to subdue your passions 
and keep your appetite within bounds" (this 
is only told indifferently, without the proper 
instruction to avoid degeneracy). 

The Thirty-third degree is a knowledge 
of the great Law of Equilibrium, and this 
instruction belongs to the Third, or Master's 
degree, where it could be of some service, 
more than in old age when tottering dotage 
takes possession. It is the Inner Christ Con- 
sciousness developed to its fullness. But 
Masonry of today, the world over, has 
drifted into the letter; not one Christ Con- 

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scious man exists among the Fraternity in 
America. 

The Thirty-third degree is not conferred 
through honor, as in ancient Masonry, but 
given either for working the Eitual in con- 
ferring degrees, or through some political 
favor. But Masonry must and will come 
into a new conscience of what the Old Ini- 
tiation really meant. Men of soul and aspi- 
ration now catch the spirit, which causes 
them to stop and think and helps to make 
them better men. But when the test comes 
and they must live the life, they fail, (Learn 
why.) Real men must, in the coming epoch, 
aid the awakened woman to restore this 
knoivledge in all its pristine purity; to 
change the awful conditions of evil that are 
an affliction and a scourge to self conscious 
human life and destructive to the Planet, 

The Middle Chamber is important; prog- 
eny begat instead of created, fills our un- 
happy land ivith atrocious criminals. 
So mav it not be. 



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THE LAST WORD 
SUGGESTIVE OF THE LOST WORD 

IN order to become the Knower of the 
Universal One Self, thou hast first of 
self to ie the knower. Help nature, and 
work on with her. Then she will make obei- 
sance, regarding thee as one of her creators. 
The portals of her secret chamders will 
open wide and lay bare before thy gaze the 
sacred treasures of her bosom which are re- 
vealed only to the eye of Spirit, that Eye 
which never closes. 

Learn the Law that leads to light and 

LIFE. 

Teach us, O God, to pray! 
A. U. M. 



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AT 1511 Eeid Street, Los Angeles, Cali- 
fornia, is located the headquarters of 
the woman's okder of esoteric ma- 
SONRY;, the only Incorporated School of Oc- 
cult Science ever established exclusively for 
women. It is open to all women of intellect, 
soul and honor, who will live the life, desir- 
ing 'Ho know the Truth that shall make 
them free.'' All members must be loyal to 
the cause of woman's enlightenment and 
emancipation, and to the single standard of 
morality. Envy, jealousy, vanity and de- 
rogatory gossip are powerful foes to prog- 
ress and must be avoided ; but condemnation 
of crime, social evils and corrupt systems of 
every description, is the duty of each mem- 
ber. Cant, hypocrisy, affectation and injus- 
tice in every form must be strenuously op- 
posed. Hypocrisy is soul destructive and 
intolerable. 

The School is no place for the emotional, 
affected, special privileged woman of indo- 
lence, vanity, fashionable folly, selfishness 
and hypocrisy, and much less for the nar- 
row, religious fanatic. Twentieth century, 
progressive women only, who will live the 
plain and simple life of Truth, Honor and 
Justice, are desirahle for candidates, and to 

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those the School opens wide its doors, where 
welcome is accorded. And also, to those we 
say: go forth, little Book, carry this long 
lost inheritance on wings of love, deep into 
the hearts of the worthy, who are learning 
to value the treasures of Truth they so read- 
ily surrendered in the far night of the past, 
and who earnestly seek to know that which 
will restore their natural right, giving them 
poise and peace in understanding the great 
laws of Life. 

'^So mote it be." 



Compiled by an effort of love in the in- 
terests of womankind, present and future. 
May she rise triumphant, in Truth! 

Devotedly, 
33°. 



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